/lit/ - Literature

The Araucana
They are dividing the south american societies by saying le spaniard is bad le indian is good or vice versa, when clearly we are mutts that should be proud of a rich ancestry.

This happened due to the new way in which we inform other people about things happening far away from us, or a long time ago.
Remember that those poems were memorized by the ancients, and were preserved in that form.
Now everything is stored in written prose (even this is getting lost), and most of people doesn't appreciate a good old song like the romance.
Also I'd correct you about the use of the word "epic"; generally this kind of works relate real events; the Divine Comedy isn't real as the Iliad was; Mio Cid was real, Martín Fierro not. Using the metre that is common on the ancient epics doesn't make it an epic.
Some recommendations of mine for more modern epics would be: La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, Purén Indómito by Diego Arias de Saavedra and the medieval Mio Cid.