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A Turbulent Decade Remembered by Diana Sorensen

A Turbulent Decade Remembered

Scenes From the Latin American Sixties

Diana Sorensen

Stanford University Press · Print & ebook · August 17, 2007

20th-Century Literary CriticismHispanic American Lit CritCaribbean & Latin American Criticism
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Who it’s for
Diana Sorensen connects Latin America’s 1960s politics to novels, literary networks, and changing critical traditions.
Genres
Caribbean & Latin American Criticism, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Hispanic American Lit Crit
Published
Stanford University Press, August 17, 2007

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A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena.

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Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of aesthetics and politics, the book addresses the impact of the Cuban Revolution on the imagination of the decade, the student movements of 1968 in their international context, and the tragic events of Tlatelolco, memorialized in different ways by Mexico's greatest intellectuals. In examining the construction of the great novels usually identified as the "Boom," the book revises the critical tradition established since the late sixties, rethinking the oft-cited "magical realism," while considering the role of the press, prizes, gendered networks of solidarity and competition, and the emergence of a literary star system. The implications of all these forces of the republic of letters are set in dialogue with an analysis of the major novels of the decade, with particular attention to their literary craft, their manipulation of space, voice, and varied readerships.

Latin American Sixties

Diana Sorensen connects Latin America’s 1960s politics to novels, literary networks, and changing critical traditions.

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  • The Cuban Revolution’s impact on the decade’s imagination
  • 1968 student movements and Tlatelolco’s memorialization

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  • Attention to novels’ craft, space, voice, and varied readerships
  • A reconsideration of “magical realism” and the Boom’s literary world

Where it sits

Caribbean & Latin American Criticism77%
20th-Century Literary Criticism41%
Hispanic American Lit Crit34%

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Publisher categories

  • Latin American History
  • Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
Authors
Diana Sorensen
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
August 17, 2007
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Latin American History