(Encyclopedia) Spanish literature, the literature of Spain.
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(Encyclopedia) Brazilian literature, the writings of both the European explorers of Brazil and its later inhabitants.
In 1902 Euclides da Cunha wrote his masterly description of an uprising in the…
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