What was the Latin American literary Boom?

What was the Latin American literary Boom?
Date
Tue April 5th 2022, 1:30 - 2:30pm
Location
Pigott Hall, Rm 252 / Zoom

Speaker(s): Brett Levinson (Binghamton U.), Ericka Beckman (UPenn), Erna von der Walde (London/Bogotá), and Mario Santana (U. Chicago)

Join us for a hybrid roundtable discussion about the Latin American literary Boom.
 
A seismic transformation of narrative took place in the 1960s with Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, and Julio Cortázar 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/Bogotá), and Mario Santana (University of Chicago) on historiographical and theoretical revisions of the event that came to be known as nueva novela—or “Boom,” for short.
 

Pigott Hall, 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 Stanford 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. Héctor Hoyos and Romina Wainberg, as part of the course Four Boom Novels (ILAC 278A). Sponsored by the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.