The post-Boom in spanish american fiction
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791438268
- ISBN10 0791438260
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 217
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1997
- Bindung Gebunden
The post-Boom in spanish american fiction
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
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.