These events impoverish the title character’s father in Alberto Blest Gana’s novel Martín Rivas. For 10 points each:
[10m] What sort of event inspired a diary by Vicente Pérez Rosales and a serial by Juana Manuela Gorriti? A novel about Eliza Sommers reworks stories of the bandit Joaquín Murrieta from one of these events.
ANSWER: mining booms [accept gold rushes, gold fever, silver rushes, copper rushes, or descriptions of mines or mineral speculation; accept California Gold Rush; prompt on economic booms or financial speculation or similar answers] (Gorriti wrote “A Year in California.” Eliza Sommers appears in Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende.)
[10h] Efraín’s father prospects for gold in Chocó in this semi-autobiographical 1867 romantic novel. Jorge Isaacs drew on his Jewish heritage to depict the title conversa of this foundational Colombian novel.
ANSWER: María
[10e] Miners are compared to a pariah dog in a poem by Colombian author Guillermo Valencia, who is sometimes grouped within this movement led by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío.
ANSWER: modernismo [or modernism; or word forms of modernist or modernistas] (The poem is Anarkos.)
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