What was the Latin American literary Boom?
Speaker(s): Brett Levinson (Binghamton U.), Ericka Beckman (UPenn), Erna von der Walde (London/Bogot谩), and Mario Santana (U. Chicago)
Join us for a hybrid roundtable discussion about the Latin American literary Boom.
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A seismic transformation of narrative took place in the 1960s with Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, and Julio Cort谩zar at its center. How does this multilayered phenomenon read today?
Four Boom Novels (ILAC 278A) is thrilled to present a roundtable with distinguished scholars Brett Levinson (Binghamton University), Ericka Beckman (University of Pennsylvania), Erna von der Walde (London/Bogot谩), and Mario Santana (University of Chicago) on historiographical and theoretical revisions of the event that came to be known as nueva novela鈥攐r 鈥淏oom,鈥 for short.
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, Room 252
Zoom info: Find the email, or ask dlclevents [at] stanford.edu (dlclevents[at]stanford[dot]edu)
Open to all on Zoom. On-campus attendance is limited to the 黑料百科 community. Contact hhoyos [at] stanford.edu (hhoyos[at]stanford[dot]edu) & rwain [at] stanford.edu (rwain[at]stanford[dot]edu) with any questions.
Hosted by Prof. H茅ctor Hoyos and Romina Wainberg, as part of the course . Sponsored by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.