Gaucho literature, known in Spanish as genero gauchesco, is a literary genre that sought to capture the language, values and daily life of the gauchos, the rural horsemen of the South American pampas. It flourished chiefly in Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil from the 1870s through the 1920s, blending folk-music cadences and countrified speech into poems and novels of rural life. Its most celebrated work is Jose Hernandez's narrative poem Martin Fierro of 1872 and 1879, alongside Estanislao del Campo's Fausto of 1866, Hilario Ascasubi's Santos Vega o los Mellizos de la Flor of 1851 and Ricardo Guiraldes's novel Don Segundo Sombra of 1926.
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Place of OriginArgentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil 1 Defining TraitUses the language of the gauchos and reflects their mentality 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Argentina, originated there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Brazil, originated there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Uruguay, originated there.
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1. Gaucho literature - Wikipedia
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particularly thrived from the 1870s to 1920s in Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil
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purporting to use the language of the gauchos
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