Abstract

GARCIA PLANCARTE, Galicia. The challenges of current historiography: the case of Hispanic American literature between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2022, n.25, pp.61-88.  Epub June 02, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i25.423.

The great histories of Hispanic American literature of the mid-twentieth century ascribed largely to the nineteenth-century hegemonic model of literary classification, which provided them with the bases for a more or less precise conformation and categorization of the Hispanic American canon of the first half of the century; however, those works written between the 1960s and 80’s, other than reproducing the previous systematization, seem to stop after the Boom, as if this were the last great agglutinating manifestation across Hispanic American literature. Furthermore, this phenomenon does not refer to a literary movement per se, but to an editorial one, intended to cover and define works by authors from different latitudes. Before the Boom, as an “exotic” representation of Latin American reality, in the more recent literary histories, the Postboom is contrasted, as a literary classification, originating in the American academy and strongly linked to the notion of postmodernity, according to which the Hispanic American narrative from the seventies to the end of the century, seeks to insert itself in the non-regional “trends” or, failing that, “universalize” the regional. While it is true that this opposition to the Boom gave rise in the 1990s to the emergence of movements such as the Crack, in Mexico, and McOndo in Chile, to which authors from other countries of South America were claimed to belong; Potsboom as a constructive category in the conformation of the canon, does not account for the totality of thematic, discursive and representative trends of Latin American literature in the last decades of the 20th century. Hence the need to review the configuration of the young contemporary canon, based on literary histories, to try to see, from a post-national perspective, their possible thematic and aesthetic concerns from which the new features of a finisecular Latin American literary canon are drawn.

Keywords : literary historiography; contemporary Latin American literature; canon.

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