Foreigners in the Homeland

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Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974 is a 2000 book by Mario Santana. The book is about the reception of the Latin American Boom. The book was reviewed in several academic journals including the Latin American Literary Review Press , Hispania, Modern Language Review , and Iberoamericana.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The Latin American Boom was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is most closely associated with Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia. Influenced by European and North American Modernism, but also by the Latin American Vanguardia movement, these writers challenged the established conventions of Latin American literature. Their work is experimental and, owing to the political climate of the Latin America of the 1960s, also very political. "It is no exaggeration," critic Gerald Martin writes, "to state that if the Southern continent was known for two things above all others in the 1960s, these were, first and foremost, the Cuban Revolution and its impact both on Latin America and the Third World generally, and secondly, the Boom in Latin American fiction, whose rise and fall coincided with the rise and fall of liberal perceptions of Cuba between 1959 and 1971."

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Hispania is a peer-reviewed academic journal and the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. It is published quarterly by the AATSP and covers Spanish and Portuguese literature, linguistics, and pedagogy. Hispania publishes in literature, linguistics, and pedagogy having to do with Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking communities, as well as book/media reviews, which are subdivided into Pan-Hispanic/Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, linguistics, language, media, and fiction and film.

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References

↑ Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro (2003). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Latin American Literary Review (in Spanish). 31 (61): 116–118. ISSN 0047-4134. JSTOR 20119896.
↑ Bellver, Catherine G. (2002). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Hispania. 85 (1): 91–92. doi:10.2307/4141189. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 4141189.
↑ Swanson, Philip (2004). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". The Modern Language Review. 99 (2): 521–522. doi:10.2307/3738820. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3738820.
↑ Gras, Dunia (2002). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland. The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Iberoamericana (2001-). 2 (6): 261–263. ISSN 1577-3388. JSTOR 41672923.

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[1] Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro (2003). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Latin American Literary Review (in Spanish). 31 (61): 116–118. ISSN 0047-4134. JSTOR 20119896.

[2] Bellver, Catherine G. (2002). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Hispania. 85 (1): 91–92. doi:10.2307/4141189. ISSN 0018-2133. JSTOR 4141189.

[3] Swanson, Philip (2004). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". The Modern Language Review. 99 (2): 521–522. doi:10.2307/3738820. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3738820.

[4] Gras, Dunia (2002). "Review of Foreigners in the Homeland. The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974". Iberoamericana (2001-). 2 (6): 261–263. ISSN 1577-3388. JSTOR 41672923.