The Generation of '72: Latin America's Forced Global Citizens

by Sophia A. McClennen and Brantley Nicholson

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical terms, they neither fed into the Cold War-inflected literary prizes that sustained the Boom nor the surge in cultural capital in Latin American cities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985371544
• ISBN13: 9780985371548
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Editorial a Contracorriente
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"