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CANADA
MEXICO
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLAND
PUERTO RICO
CANADA
 In 1802, the Lower Canada legislative
library was founded, being one of the first
in Occident, the first in the Canadas. For
comparison, the library of the British
House of Commons was founded sixteen
years later. The library had some rare titles
about geography, natural science and
letters. All books it contained were
moved to the Canadian parliament in
Montreal when the two Canadas, lower
and upper, were united.
It was the rise of Quebec patriotism
and the 1837 Lower Canada
Rebellion, in addition to a modern
system of primary school
education, which led to the rise of
French-Canadian fiction.
L'influence d'un livre by Philippe-
Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé
is widely regarded as the first
French-Canadian novel.
 Louis-Hanoré
Fréchette

(born Nov. 16, 1839, Lévis,

Que.—died May 31, 1908,
Montreal), preeminent French
Canadian poet of the 19th
century, noted for his patriotic
poems.he wrote La Voix d’un
exilé (1866–68; “The Voice of an
Exile”), a poem attacking the
political and clerical dealings in
Quebec in that period of
Canadian confederation and
voicing a patriotic idealization
of the French republic.
 Anne Hébert
CANADIAN POET AND
NOVELIST

• Les Songes en équilibre

(1942; “Dreams in
Equilibrium”)
•Oeuvres poétique
(1993; “Poetic Works”)
•Le Torrent (1950; The
Torrent )
•Le Tombeau des rois
(1953; The Tomb of the
Kings )
 The
Greatest
Canadian Literature
 The Hockey Sweater is Roch
Carrier's most famous work
and is considered an iconic
piece of
Canadian literature. The story
has sold over 300,000 copies
and has been republished in
numerous anthologies. It
exemplifies the nation's
passion for hockey, and while
it is often considered an
allegory of the relationship
and tensions that exist
between francophones and
anglophones , the story is
popular throughout the entire
nation. A line from the story
appears on Canadian five-
dollar bills printed between
2001 and 2013.
 • Written by John
Ridchardson
• The story wacousta
was the first novel
ever written by a
native- born
Canadian and it
speaks volumes
about the attitudes
of Europeans
towards the natives
in Canada in the
1800's.
 Written by Ralph Connor
was the best-known
Canadian novelist of the first
two decades of the Twentieth
Century. The Man from
Glengarry was his most
popular and accomplished
work. Immediately after its
publication in 1901, the novel
spent several months in the
top ranks of the New York
Times "Books in Demand" list.
 Under the Volcano is a novel
by English writer Malcolm Lowry
published in 1947. The novel tells
the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an
alcoholic British consul in the small
Mexican town of Quauhnahuac,
on the Day of the Dead, 2
November 1938.
The book takes its name from the
two volcanoes that overshadow
Quauhnahuac and the
characters, Popocatepetl and
Iztaccihuatl. Under the Volcano
was Lowry's second and last
complete novel.
 Life of Pi is a Canadian
fantasy adventure novel by
Yann Martel published in
2001.
The protagonist is Piscine
Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian
boy from Pondicherry who
explores issues of spirituality
and practicality from an early
age. He survives 227 days
after a shipwreck while
stranded on a lifeboat in the
Pacific Ocean with a Bengal
tiger named Richard Parker.
 Elizabeth and
After is a novel by
Matt Cohen, first
published in 1999 by
Knopf Canada.
His final novel, it won
the Governor
General's Award for
English language
fiction just a few
weeks before Cohen's
death.
MEXICO
 Mexican literature is one of
the most prolific and influential
of Spanish language literatures
along with those of Spain ,
Argentina and Cuba . It has
internationally recognized
authors such as Juan Rulfo,
Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes ,
Amado Nervo and several
 Juan Rulfo

~ Writer, screenwriter,
photographer
~ He is best known for two
literary works, El Llano en
llamas (1953), a collection
of short stories, and the
1955 novel
Pedro Páramo .
 ~ Writer, poet, diplomat
~ As a teenager in 1931,
Paz published his first
poems, including
"Cabellera".
~at the age of 19, he
published Luna Silvestre
("Wild Moon")
~In 1932, with some
friends, he founded his first
literary review, Barandal Octavio Paz
Lozano
Famous works :
•El Laberinto de la Soledad ("The
Labyrinth of Solitude")
•Plural (1970–1976)
 ~ José Joaquín
Fernández de Lizardi
~ first novel written
and published in
Latin America.
~ In english (The
Mangy Parrot) The
Life and Times of
Periquillo Sarniento
Written by himself for
his Children
 Amado Nervo
MEXICAN AUTHOR

El bachiller (1895;
“The Baccalaureate”)
 ALSO KNOWN AS
Juana Ramírez de Asbaje
BORN
November 12, 1651?
San Miguel Nepantla,
Mexico
Sor Juana Inés de la DIED
Cruz April 17, 1695
MEXICAN POET AND Mexico City, Mexico
SCHOLAR NOTABLE WORKS
“First Dream”
“Respuesta a Sor Filotea de
la Cruz”
“The Divine Narcissus”
 •A novel by Carlos
Fuentes, published in
Spanish as La muerte
de Artemio Cruz in
1962.
•An imaginative
portrait of an
unscrupulous individual,
the story also serves as
commentary on
Mexican society, most
notably on the abuse of
power—a theme that
runs throughout
Fuentes’s work.
PUERTO RICO
 -playwright, poet, writer,
essayist
- He joined the Society of the
Recollection of Historical
Documents Relating to
Puerto Rico (Sociedad
Recolectora de Documentos
Históricos de San Juan
Bautista de Puerto Rico) in
years 1850–1852.
- He published his first
important work called The
Historical Library of Puerto
Rico (Biblioteca Histórica de
Alejandro Tapia y Puerto Rico) relating to those
Rivera documents and his findings
on them
 • was a Puerto Rican poet of the
Romantic Era.
• In 1873 he joined the Liberal
Reformist Party and became a
principal force behind the
creation of the Ateneo
Puertorriqueño.
• In 1878 he became the co-
founder, along with his friend
Manuel de Elzabura, of the
Puerto Rican Review.
- In 1878 he wrote his first poem A
José Gautier
Puerto Rico (To Puerto Rico), was
Benítez highly acclaimed by his
contemporaries as one of his
greatest works. A Puerto Rico also
received an award from the
Ateneo.
 - known as "El Gran
Ciudadano de las
Américas" ("The Great
Citizen of the
Americas")
- Was a Puerto Rican
educator, philosopher,
intellectual, lawyer,
Eugenio María de
sociologist, novelist,
and Puerto Rican Hostos
independence
advocate.
- His greatest work, "La
Peregrinación de
Bayoán".
• Written by Dr. Manuel
A. Alonso
• Was a collection of
verses whose main
themes were the poor
Puerto Rican country
farmer and the customs
of Puerto Rico.
POEMS
La Ninfa de Puerto Rico"
- written by Maria Bibiana Benitez, one of the Puerto
ricans great poets.
"La Borinqueña"
- wrote by Lola Rodríguez de Tió, a lyrics to the
revolutionary.
- used by the revolutionists in the Grito de Lares
"Río Grande de Loíza"
- Written by Julia de Burgos, considered by many as
one of the greatest poets to be born in Puerto Rico
and who later lived in New York
- Her poem describes the everyday struggles of the
common Puerto Rican.