Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito

doi:10.1017/CHO9781316050859.020

16 - Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito

from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015

María Rosa Olivera-Williams

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Ileana Rodríguez and

Mónica Szurmuk

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Ileana Rodríguez: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk: Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina

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The women's boom in Latin American literature, which could be named as such because of the explosion in the number of women novelists who achieved critical recognition and important positions in the publishing market, occurred during the Post-Boom. Parody is one of the Post-Boom's most salient characteristics. The fiction produced by the women's Boom offers different ways to perform the gender divide, different ways to portray reality that highlight the differences between the Boom's desire for cosmopolitism and the fallout from the Boomito's forced global citizenship. The canonical Boom novels are characterized by a radical questioning of reality and the writer's task, as well as by a rejection of traditional realism. The Chilean Diamela Eltit's "Sociedad Anonima", an article published in 1999, discusses the effects of the neoliberal market's invasion on Chile's culture at the turn of the century. Diamela Eltit's fiction, among the most experimental literary projects of her generation, develops an aesthetic of space.

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Jose Maria de Heredia lyrical world Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda Portuguese traditional poetry public education Ruben Dario

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Information: The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 278 - 295

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781316050859.020 [Opens in a new window]

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