The post-Boom in spanish american fiction
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791438268
- ISBN10 0791438260
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 217
- Any Edició 1997
- Encuadernació Rústica
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Literatura Hispano-americanaThe post-Boom in spanish american fiction
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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.