@article{article_555817, title={ROOTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE}, journal={Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies}, volume={24}, pages={17–27}, year={2011}, author={Önal, Zeynep}, keywords={Dil Devrimi,Modernist Kökler,Yazınsal Etki­ leşim,"Boom}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}