The post-boom in Spanish American fiction / Donald L. Shaw.

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Shaw, Donald Leslie, 1930-

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TextSeries: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culturePublication details: Saratoga Springs : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585066663
9780585066660
9780791438251
0791438252
9780791438268
0791438260

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Post-boom in Spanish American fiction.DDC classification:

863 21

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PQ7082.N7 S515 1998eb

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18.33

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Contents:

The post-boom -- The transition -- Isabel Allende -- Antonio Sk�armeta -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Rosario Ferr�e -- Gustavo Sainz -- Conclusion: post-boom and postmodernism.

Summary: 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 that 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.Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.

The post-boom -- The transition -- Isabel Allende -- Antonio Sk�armeta -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Rosario Ferr�e -- Gustavo Sainz -- Conclusion: post-boom and postmodernism.

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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 that 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.

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