Latin American Boom

E18043

cultural phenomenon literary movement

The Latin American Boom was a mid-20th-century literary movement in which innovative Latin American novelists gained global prominence through experimental narratives and magical realism.

Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Boom latinoamericano	1
Boom of Latin American literature	1
Latin American Boom writers	1
Latin American literary Boom	1
Latin American literary boom	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural phenomenon ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
associatedConcept	lo real maravilloso ⓘ magical realism ⓘ
emergedInContextOf	Cold War ⓘ Cuban Revolution ⓘ rapid urbanization in Latin America ⓘ
endPeriod	1970s ⓘ
field	literature ⓘ narrative fiction ⓘ
followedBy	Post-Boom ⓘ
gainedVisibilityThrough	European publishing houses ⓘ Spanish-language literary prizes ⓘ translation into English ⓘ
genreFocus	novel ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Latin American Boom ⓘ surface form: Boom latinoamericano Latin American Boom ⓘ surface form: Latin American literary Boom
hasCharacteristic	cosmopolitan outlook ⓘ experimental narrative techniques ⓘ formal innovation ⓘ magical realism ⓘ multiple perspectives ⓘ nonlinear storytelling ⓘ political engagement ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Latin American cultural identity ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ world literature ⓘ
language	Spanish ⓘ
mainRegion	Latin America ⓘ
notableAuthor	Alejo Carpentier ⓘ Carlos Fuentes ⓘ Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ José Donoso ⓘ Juan Rulfo ⓘ Julio Cortázar ⓘ Manuel Puig ⓘ Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ
notableWork	One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ Rayuela ⓘ The Death of Artemio Cruz ⓘ The Kingdom of This World ⓘ The Obscene Bird of Night ⓘ The Time of the Hero ⓘ
precededBy	Latin American regionalist novel ⓘ
startPeriod	1960s ⓘ
typicalTheme	dictatorship and authoritarianism ⓘ history and memory ⓘ identity and hybridity ⓘ social injustice ⓘ

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mercedes Barcha → associatedWith → Latin American Boom ⓘ

magical realism → emergedFrom → Latin American Boom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latin American literary boom

Latin American Boom → hasAlternativeName → Latin American Boom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Boom latinoamericano

Latin American Boom → hasAlternativeName → Latin American Boom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latin American literary Boom

Latin American literature → hasMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Alejo Carpentier → influenced → Latin American Boom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latin American Boom writers

In Evil Hour → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Leaf Storm → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

this entity surface form: Boom of Latin American literature

Love in the Time of Cholera → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Macondo → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

No One Writes to the Colonel → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Of Love and Other Demons → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

One Hundred Years of Solitude → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Strange Pilgrims → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Autumn of the Patriarch → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Death of Artemio Cruz → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Gabriel García Márquez → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Guillermo Cabrera Infante → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Mario Vargas Llosa → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Gabo → refersToPersonMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ