The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought & Culture)

The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought & Culture) image
ISBN-10:

0791438260

ISBN-13:

9780791438268

Released: Jul 10, 1998
Format: Paperback, 230 pages
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Description:

Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.

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 which 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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