Studies on Modern History of Literature in Latin America

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out in relation to the production and publication of research papers on the study of the variables Modern History of Literature in Latin America. The purpose of this bibliometric analysis is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, identifying 79 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors in relation to the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 31 publications, is the Latin American country with the highest production. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the variables Literature of Oral Tradition, Social Justice and Inclusive Education was Social Sciences with 43 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the Journal Article, which represents 77% of the total scientific production.