The post-boom in Spanish American fiction
By: Donald L. Shaw.
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Saratoga Springs
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.