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Question SA-1. Here is the text reference (p. 132/1):

Latin American literature and culture has always been rich in the local or regional aspect. Some of the first writings to come out of the New World were descriptions of things that were new and different in the discoverers' experience. In later centuries, writers continued to record and chronicle the special and sometimes quaint ways and customs of the inhabitants of the continent's different regions. This current has had many variants; for example, the cattle culture produced its own strong regional literature in Argentina and elsewhere. The genre known as "Costumbrismo" is sometimes used to describe these various currents, which reached their peak in a movement bridging the gap between the unbridled Romantic movement in Latin America (mid-19th Century) and the less emotional currents of the latter part of the century (Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism).