Ibero-American Electronic Text Series

About the Ibero-American Electronic Text Series

The Ibero-American Electronic Text Series is a project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to Latin American and Iberian works in the humanities. The texts comply with the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange and with the Guidelines for Markup of Electronic Texts, reading level, which can be accessed at http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu/resources/etext/TEIGuidelines.shtml.

Each text is accompanied by its corresponding source text, as well as a full header of the electronic edition. In addition, an encoding description is included to facilitate the identification of its provenance as well as any editorial amendments to the printed source. The year in parentheses following each title corresponds to the year of the edition used, which is not necessarily the year the text was first published.

Currently, the series holds over 35 titles in Spanish that cover a wide array of works from Latin America and Spain that span from the medieval to
contemporary period. Some titles included in the Ibero-American Electronic Text Series are: Vida de Santa María Egipciaqua; Manuscrito de Chichicastenango/Popol buj; Loa para el auto sacramental de "El Divino Narciso", Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes; Principios de Moral e Instrucción Cívica, Rafael Montoro.

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Materials in the Collection:

Spanish: Medieval
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.SPMD

Though debatable, Medieval Spanish literature begins in the eleventh century and ends in the fifteenth century. While the mester de clerecía displays a uniform cuaderna vía in the thirteenth century, it has a different entity in the fourteenth century. The Libro de Buen Amor marks the beginning of a new poetic, with a more secular audience. In the fifteenth century, the literary creation is determined by courteous love.

Suggested reading:

• Menéndez Peláez, Jesús. Historia de la Literatura Española. León: Editorial Everest, S.A. 2005.

Spanish: Golden Age
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.SPGA

The Golden Age period of Spanish literature covers most of the sixteenth century and part of the seventeenth century. It begins with the Renaissance and ends in the Baroque period. The classic writers of the Spanish literature lived during this interlude, including Cervantes and Gracián, among others.

Spanish: 19th Century
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.SP19C

The literary production of Spain during this period is marked by three influential dates in its history: 1834, with the dead of Fernando VII, 1868, “la Gloriosa”, revolution that caused the decline of the Bourbon dynasty and 1898, the colonial disaster of Cuba.

Suggested reading:

• Shaw, D. Historia de la literatura Española: El siglo XIX. Barcelona: Ariel, 1983.

Latin American: Colonial
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.LACOL

The colonial period of Spanish-American literature extended from the time of discovery (1492) to the triumph of the struggles for independence (1825). This period consisted of three influential moments of the Spanish American literature: the sixteenth century, the century of discovery, exploitation, and conquest; the seventeenth century, the century of colonization; and the eighteen-century, which announced the beginning of the disintegration of the colonial structure.

Suggested reading:

• Solé, Carlos A., Ed. Latin American Writers. Macmillan Publishing Company. Vol I. 1989

Latin American: 19th Century
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.LA19C

This period of Latin American literary history opens with the independence from Spain, and with the inception of the Romantic Movement. This literary movement acquired a distinctive nationalist character in Latin America, as the new nations strove to establish their unique values.

Suggested reading:

• Ocasio, Rafael. Literature of Latin America. London: Green Wood Press, 2004.

Latin American: 20th Century
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.LA20C

Many historical events and literary trends marked the literature of Latin America of this period. Fiction becomes strongly related to a historical movement with the influence of the Mexican revolution. El Criollísmo explores native traits associated with characters within specific Latin American geographic boundaries. La Novela de la tierra gives the land a central role in the literature that examines the effects of the wild on the characters associated with specific social and governmental systems. The Boom appears as Latin America’s most experimental literary movement. Unlike writers from previous movements, realism-based generation, Boom writers sought to explore Latin American reality by means of experimental forms.

Suggested reading:

• Ocasio, Rafael. Literature of Latin America. London: Green Wood Press, 2004.

Critical Studies
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt.CRIT

This section relates to monographic studies dedicated to the analysis and revision of a book or author.

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