Saturday, June 7, 2014

TOW (& Answer)...

Book Jacket for: Encyclopedia of Latin American literatureThe question was what is the Post-Boom.  The answer is that the Post-Boom is a movement in Spanish American fiction.  It began in the 1970’s and is less defined as a movement then the Boom was.  It is notable for shepherding the emergence of a number of women writers including Isabel Allende, Luisa Valenzuela, Elena Poniatowska, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Rosario Ferre. 


Find out a lot more about this literary movement from the source, p. 671 of the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature edited by Verity Smith.  The book was published by Fitzroy Dearborn in 1997.