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Latin American Literary Boom

After World War II, Latin America experienced increasing economic prosperity and confidence, which led to a literary boom in the 1960s and 1970s. This period, known as the Latin American Boom, brought many Latin American authors and their experimental works to an international audience. Famous authors of the Boom include Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. Their works ventured outside of traditional narratives and helped establish Latin American literature on the global stage. While some later felt the success of the Boom was restrictive, contemporary Latin American literature remains vibrant, ranging from best-selling authors to more avant-garde writers.

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Latin American Literary Boom

After World War II, Latin America experienced increasing economic prosperity and confidence, which led to a literary boom in the 1960s and 1970s. This period, known as the Latin American Boom, brought many Latin American authors and their experimental works to an international audience. Famous authors of the Boom include Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. Their works ventured outside of traditional narratives and helped establish Latin American literature on the global stage. While some later felt the success of the Boom was restrictive, contemporary Latin American literature remains vibrant, ranging from best-selling authors to more avant-garde writers.

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21st CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

WEEK 4 TOPIC

POST WW II LATIN AMERICAN BOOM

Latin America is an area that consists of the entire continent of South America in addition to
Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language.
The peoples of this large area shared the experience of conquest and colonization by the Spaniards and
Portuguese from the late 15th through the 18th century as well as movements of independence from Spain
and Portugal in the early 19th century. Even since independence, many of the various nations have
experienced similar trends, and they have some awareness of a common heritage. However, there are
also enormous differences between them. Not only do the people live in a large number of independent
units, but the geography and climate of their countries vary immensely.

Latin American Literature


The twentieth century saw an unmatched period of artistic accomplishment in Latin American
literature. Though it is nearly impossible to choose only a few writers to highlight, the following Latin
American authors must be noted for their contributions to the richness of modern literature and poetry.

In the early portion of the 1900s, poets like Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo,
as well as Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, and Argentine prose writer Jorge Luis Borges laid the
foundation for the Latin American Boom. The Latin American Boom was a period of literary flourishing
in the 1960s and 70s that brought much of the area’s literature to an international audience. Famous
Boom authors include Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel
García Márquez.

Moreover, Latin American writers like García Márquez, Mistral, Vargas Llosa, Paz, and
Neruda) have won the Nobel Prize. They are among the fortunate international authors who no doubt
signify legions of worthy Latin Americans waiting for an audience. The region's literature is often
associated solely with this style, with the 20th Century literary movement known as Latin American
Boom, and with its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez. Latin American literature has a rich
and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries.

Boom in Latin Literature

After World War II, Latin America enjoyed increasing economic prosperity, and a new-found
confidence also gave rise to a literary boom. It was a period of literary flourishing in the 1960s and 70s
that brought much of the area’s literature to an international audience. Famous Boom authors include
Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. Boom
writers ventured outside traditional narrative structures, embracing non-linearity and experimental
narration. They launched Latin American literature onto the world stage, as it was distinguished by daring
and experimental novels. Emir Rodríguez Monegal published his influential Latin American literature
monthly Mundo Nuevo which was one of the Boom's defining novels, which led to the association of
Latin American literature with magic realism.

Post-Boom and Contemporary Literature

Sometimes characterized by a tendency towards irony and towards the use of popular genres.
Some writers felt the success of the Boom to be a burden, and spiritedly denounced the caricature that
reduces Latin American literature to magical realism. Other writers have traded on the Boom's success
like Laura Esquivel's pastiche of magical realism in Como agua para chocolate.

Contemporary literature in the region is vibrant and varied, ranging from the best-selling Paulo
Coelho and Isabel Allende to the more avant-garde and critically acclaimed work of writers such as
Diamela Eltit and Giannina Braschi.

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