The post-boom in Spanish American fiction / Donald L. Shaw.
What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing that began to disp...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[1998]
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Series: | SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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Summary: | What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing that began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism. |
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Physical Description: | v, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index. |
ISBN: | 0791438252 9780791438251 0791438260 9780791438268 |