"Posboom" latinoamericano y transición democrática española: contrastes y correlaciones

Abstract

Progress has been made in the knowledge of gestation and the impact of the boom of the Spanish-American narrative in Spain, but we know much less about the period immediately after the great upheaval, that is, the period after José Donoso’s symbolic essay, Historia personal del “boom”, published in 1972. Certainly, this post-boom (although the term is still very debatable) reflects a new stage of assimilation of Latin American literature by Spanish readers and institutions, based on the normalization of the offer and a more reasoned dissemination of the Latin American canon. However, the relations of forces within the literary system underwent in those years new modifications that still deserve a detailed study. For example, it would be interesting to see how the political vector marked years before by the Cuban Revolution is replaced, redefined or complemented by the Latin American pan-dictatorship of the Southern Cone, with the consequences it had in terms of exile of writers in Spain, and, therefore, a different presence in the media and cultural magazines. far from the utopian euphoria of the previous period and in full coincidence with the Spanish democratic transition. 

Keywords: Latin American Boom, Posboom, Spanish Democratic Transition, New Latin American Narrative, Latin American Exile.