The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (The A to Z Guide Series) by Fran Mason

Author:Fran Mason [Mason, Fran]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780810870215
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

LATIN AMERICAN BOOM. A term used to refer to the upsurge in literary and cultural activity that took place in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. The major "Boom" writers are Julio Cortázar, whose Rayuela (Hopscotch) is often regarded as its founding text, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The term is often simply used to describe the arrival of a new generation of writers, but can also be used to refer to the idea of the "Boom" as literary movement that developed new experimental textual practices in opposition to those used by the modernismo writers of the early 20th century. More specifically it has also been used to identify a group of writers unified by their use of the techniques and forms of magic realism. This latter view is less frequent than the others because the "Boom" writers generated a range of different styles of writing that cannot simply be reduced to the label of magic realism, but does find usage in the notion of a "post-Boom" generation of writers who responded to the aesthetics of the "Boom" writers rather than to modernismo and who paid more attention either to textual strategies (Severo Sarduy) or to the media culture developing in Latin America (Manuel Puig). This distinction is often used to foreground the fact that the works of the "Boom" writers are defined by their relationships and consonances with both modernist and postmodernist styles, whereas the "post-Boom" writers are defined more by a relationship with postmodernism (either by the embrace of its principles or by a rejection of them in favor of more realist forms of writing).

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