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The central character of the novel uses both oral and written narratives in her discourses. Eva loves telling and writing stories, just as Allende's novel proves that fusing the literary traditions of the colonizer and the co lonial is possible . When the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors settled in Central and South America in the fifteenth century they brought their culture with them . The peoples of Latin America were introduced to the ways of their colonial masters including their language and literature. For centuries thereafter , observes Anne Fremantle in her Preface to Latin-American Literature Today . Latin-American writers looked to Europe for their models just as the New England writers looked to London (1977 : I) . Towards the latter part of the nineteenth century however writers turned to their literary traditions and broke with their colonial models . The publication of Jose Hernandez ' s Martin Fierro an epic on gaucho life in Argentina in 1872 signalled this break .
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The central character of the novel uses both oral and written narratives in her discourses. Eva loves telling and writing stories, just as Allende's novel proves that fusing the literary traditions of the colonizer and the co lonial is possible . When the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors settled in Central and South America in the fifteenth century they brought their culture with them . The peoples of Latin America were introduced to the ways of their colonial masters including their language and literature. For centuries thereafter , observes Anne Fremantle in her Preface to Latin-American Literature Today . Latin-American writers looked to Europe for their models just as the New England writers looked to London (1977 : I) . Towards the latter part of the nineteenth century however writers turned to their literary traditions and broke with their colonial models . The publication of Jose Hernandez ' s Martin Fierro an epic on gaucho life in Argentina in 1872 signalled this break .
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