Southern Literature and Culture

Introduction

Literary critics will argue that Southern Literature is different from other American Literatures because of the differences between Southern culture and what we would call mainstream or non-Southern U.S. culture. Those cultural differences, in effect, cause the literature itself to be different. This is just a fancy way of asserting that Southern Literature is different, distinct, and separate in many ways from other kinds of American Literature.

South American Culture

South American culture is marked by the colonial and pre-Columbian ancestors main measure to which were added in varying degrees, elements brought by later immigrants who were coming to the region. Also, see the increasing development of a culture framed in the process of globalization.

Cultural differences are pronounced, and the partition of the subcontinent during the colonial era was that there are two dominant languages, Spanish and Portuguese, the latter spoken almost exclusively in Brazil. The pre-Columbian indigenous culture has a strong presence in Peru and Bolivia and parts of the Amazon. In Paraguay, Guarani (the language used by Aboriginal people of the same name) is widely used in addition to Castilian, and even recognized as official language (Edward, 90).

Cultural differences are not framed within national borders. So you can find more cultural similarity between the inhabitants of border areas between the same and the interior of each country. This is due in part to the postcolonial divide that accompanied the formation of independent states in the nineteenth century.

Arts & Literature

South American culture is present in various ways throughout the world. For example, the Andean handicrafts enjoy considerable demand in different markets such as Europe.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the tango, a style of music and dance of origin River Plate (Argentina and Uruguay) had great success in Europe and Colombia. This music was played in Castilian it was not an obstacle to their diffusion abroad. In South America, non-exclusive musical styles of the subcontinent have developed, such as salsa, which has its "capital" in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. Also, some Brazilian cultural expressions have a strong presence worldwide where elements such as capoeira, bossa nova and samba have universal popularity.

The literature has a significant importance in South America, and the proofs are four writers who have been Nobel Laureates in Literature, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Other leading exponents are Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Mario Machado de Assis and Benedetti (Edward, 90).

Moreover, the emigration phenomenon of crucial growth in recent decades has led to the South Americans down in Europe and North America chiefly carried his habits of contributing to the expansion of South American culture. There is a strong presence of Ecuadorians in Spain, 50 the latter also migrate en masse to northern cities of the continent like New York or Miami. The situation also makes money and customs that these migrants take their host countries to accompany them when they return to their countries of origin, thus contributing to a new cultural exchange.

Analysis of the Stories

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