Donald L. Shaw

The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Suny Latin American and Iberia
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780791438268
• ISBN-10: 0791438260
• Artikelnr.: 21461571

Autorenporträt

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.