Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
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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