A Turbulent Decade Remembered Scenes from the by Diana Sorensen PAPERBACK

A Turbulent Decade RememberedScenes from the Latin American Sixties\nAuthor(s): Diana Sorensen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804756631, 978-0804756631\nSynopsis\nA Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960sthe continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of aesthetics and politics, the book addresses the impact of the Cuban Revolution on the imagination of the decade, the student movements of 1968 in their international context, and the tragic events of Tlatelolco, memorialized in different ways by Mexico's greatest intellectuals. In examining the construction of the great novels usually identified as the \""Boom,\"" the book revises the critical tradition established since the late sixties, rethinking the oft-cited \""magical realism,\"" while considering the r.