The post-boom in Spanish American fiction
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The post-boom in Spanish American fiction
（SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture）
State University of New York Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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