Essays and Research Papers on Latin-American Literature

A 3 page paper which examines the reality of sickness, and its connection to love, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which relates Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes to Diego Velasquez’ painting Las Meninas. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In eight pages this paper explores what Ana Menendez reveals about Cuban politics through her use of humor in her text In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.

This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the novels of Edwidge Danticat. Of particular focus is the complex and contradictory image of Haitian culture that emerges in her works. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 6 page paper reviews the collection of short stories and poems by Puerto Rican author Judith Ortiz Cofer. No additional sources are listed.

This 3 page paper examines what magical realism is, and argues that Marquez’s work should be taken seriously. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This five page research paper addresses the life of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, a seventeenth century Mexican writer/poet, specifically focusing on her tone and style. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page essay focuses on Jose Saramago's novel The Cave and argues that the author's meaning is directly related to Plato's famous allegory with the same name. The Center, which is a large commercial center, is a huge, luxurious "cave" that deceives its residents that the life it presents is "real," but Saramago's novel ...

In a paper of three pages, the author writes about the work Don Quixote. The author of this paper discusses the history of the work as well as how they feel about the work. There are two sources cited in this paper.

This 5 page essay draws on a passage by Carlos Fuentes and then relates this perspective to News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel G. Marquez and Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 7 page paper reviews Gabriel García Márquez's non-fiction book "News of a Kidnapping" and Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto". No additional sources are listed.

This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Antunes' "The Natural Order of Things". The nature of memory and time in the novel is explored. Bibliography lists 1 source.