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Social Protest In The Works Of The Guatemalan Writer Mario Monteforte Toledo, Donna Mae Peterson
Social Protest In The Works Of The Guatemalan Writer Mario Monteforte Toledo, Donna Mae Peterson
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The Indianist theme in Latin America began almost as soon as the first white man set foot on American soil. Earliest writings took the form of social protests over the poor treatment which was meted out to the Indians and abuses which were committed against them. Shortly before Christmas in 1511, Fray Antonio de Montesinos delivered a stinging sermon against the Spaniards for their maltreatment of the Indian: