The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction
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1998
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3826-8 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-3826-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Donald L. Shaw is Brown-Forman Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including most recently Antonio Skarmeta and the Post-Boom, Borges' Narrative Strategy, and Alejo Carpentier.
Part 1
The Post-Boom
Chapter 1
The Post-Boom
Chapter 2
The Transition
Part 2
Some Post-Boom Novelists
Chapter 3
Isabel Allende
Chapter 4
Antonio Skármeta
Chapter 5
Luisa Valenzuela
Chapter 6
Rosario Ferré
Chapter 7
Gustavo Sainz
Chapter 8
Conclusion: Post-Boom and Postmodernism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 299 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-3826-0 / 0791438260 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-3826-8 / 9780791438268 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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