"Canon" Tarea 1.11.11

1. What is meant by the "canon" with regard to literature.
The term canon is used in literature to refer to a book or a piece of writing that was the most influential in shaping western culture or inspiring a great change.

2. Who is considered among the "canon" in Latin American literature. According to whom?

• José Julián Martí Pérez: was an influential poet, journalist, and essayist in a political time in Cuba. Martí was one of the leading advocates for Cuban independence, stating his opinions through his writing. Pérez spurred a time of political writing in Latin America.
• Emir Rodríguez Monegal: an Uruguayan who wrote the book Mundo Nuevo and inspired the Association of Latin American Literature.
• Mario Vargas Llosa: is Peru's most recognized and controversial writers and journalists. Also a political writer and and a Nobel Prize winner.
• Augusto Roa Bastos: wrote one of the first and most influential dictator novels, Yo, el supremo. He used writing to passively revolt against the dictatorship in his country of Paraguay. 
• Gabriel García Márquez: born in Columbia, was recognized for one of the most influential novels of the 20th century when he wrote Cien Años de Soledad. He contributed massively to both world and Latin American literature.

Many of these authors are recognized by the Latin American community and by the world. Also several literature critics, including Harold Bloom, have declared these writers to be of special importance to Latin American Literature, and to world literature.

3. origines of writers were stated in question 2.