ROOTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Abstract
The following study entitled "The Contemporary Latin American Literature" aims to seek the roots of the Latin American literature before 1940 in order to perceive the literary renovation in the new Latin American novel, the revolutionary change in language after 1940. The study is searching the social, historical and cultural background of the Contemporary Latin American literature to expose the process since the end of the nineteenth century until the period called 'Boom' of Latin American Literature pointing the literary interaction of Spanish and Latin American writers during the mentioned interval of time and revealing the modernist effects on the New Latin American novel. Thus the study attempts to present a general perspective of the contemporary Latin American novel which renovated itself from the 1940s henceforth occupying a prestigious place in the literatures of the world.
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Primary Language
English
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Zeynep Önal
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Publication Date
January 1, 2011
Submission Date
January 1, 2011
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Published in Issue
Year 2011 Volume: 24 Number: 2