Donald Leslie Shaw

Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges

What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.

Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction, The

Antonio Skármeta and the Post Boom

Dona Barbara

There is general consensus about the meaning of most of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps the best known and most cosmopolitan Latin American writer of the twentieth century. Professor Shaw turns to the less examined area of structure and narrative method. Over sixty tales, from all the main collections, are brought into play to illustrate such techniques as framing devices, pivotal episodes, shifting themes and inlaid details. The process reveals Borges' craftsmanship and ability to tailor form to content; in some cases, Shaw suggests, formal arrangement functions as a metaphor of Borges' ideas about reality.

Borges' Narrative Strategy

El siglo XIX

The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

Beyond the Vanguard

Spanish American Poetry After 1950

Borges, Ficciones

Stephen M. Hart

Drawing upon recent research, Shaw traces the pattern from Romanticism to the Boom and beyond and shows how presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.

Donald Leslie Shaw

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