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The Boom in Barcelona

Literary Modernism in Spanish and Spanish-American Fiction (1950-1974)

by Mayder Dravasa (Author)
©2005 Monographs XII, 196 Pages

Summary

The Boom is the socio-literary movement that brought the Latin American writers Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar and the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo to fame during the 1960s. Prior studies of the Boom have essentially focused on the characteristics of the movement in Latin America and have been interested mainly in the originality or literary experimentalism of the Boom, in which these studies mirrored the ideals of the Cuban revolution.
This groundbreaking book presents a history of the Boom in Spain as well as in Latin America and critiques the myth of originality of the Boom, which is only conventional inside the parameters of literary modernism. With this new perspective, the Boom appears as a manifestation of literary modernism, which repeats the history of the European avant-gardes of the second decade of the twentieth century.

Details

Pages
XII, 196
Publication Year
2005
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820468273
Language
English
Keywords
Spanisch Literatur Geschichte 1950-1974 1960s /Latin America socio-literary movement
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XII, 196 pp.

Biographical notes

Mayder Dravasa (Author)

The Author: Mayder Dravasa received her Ph.D. in Spanish-American literature at Yale University. She has taught at various institutions in the eastern United States, including Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, and Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She has published articles on the Boom in Spanish-American literature, on Juan Goytisolo, and on Gabriel García Márquez.

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