The importance of pre-Hispanic literature

The importance of pre-Hispanic literature Show culture, beliefs, social organization or landscape of a people through his writings. Centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas was populated by many very civilized indigenous peoples and cultures intermediate areas. The most advanced three great centers of civilization emerged: that of the Maya in Guatemala and Yucatan; the Aztecs in Mexico; and that of the Incas in Peru, which have left an admirable artistic heritage (temples, palaces, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, weaving industry, jewelry and woodcarvings).The culture of each of these people was unique and beautiful, but also played an important role in the development and cultural evolution of the America of today. These rich people, civilized, and highly intellectual, economic, and social progress astronomical, were colonized by Europe, and in the process, were changed and sometimes even destroyed their heritage, customs and their own existence

Characteristics of prehispanic literature

✓ Anonymous: No sign their work.
 ✓ Oral: It is transmitted through generations.
 ✓ Agraristas: closely linked to the issue of agriculture.
 ✓ Collective: Because the works were community and not individual.
 ✓ Pantheist: Ancient man worshiped and worship elements of nature (sun, moon, lightning, mountains, rain, snake etc.)
                             

Introduction

When men come to America from Spain , there are numerous different civilizations each other and with their own literature . The first texts in indigenous languages ​​do not belong to Latin American literature , however studied the importance of contact between languages ​​and cultures that enrich American literature . Unlike what happens with North America, whose settlement is based on inculturation , in Latin identity is not removed with the conquest , but both cultures are intertwined ; It is we call miscegenation.