Latin American literature written by women today: Approach to its reception and preliminary notes to an emerging phenomenon. The case of Colombia

Abstract

 In the 1960s, Latin America firmly positioned itself on the world literary scene with the emergence of the boom, mainly led by five national centers: Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Fifty years later, the market and critics speak of a new boom in Latin American literature, this time starring women born in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. On this occasion, Colombia falls off the cast and its role is very marginal. What are the reasons that exclude Colombian literature this time? Through this enunciation framework and using and approach to reception, we will attend to the new production of literature written by young Latin American women writers. The goal is to draw a general overview of what has been called a “New boom” of female narrative on the continent, carrying out, above all, a reading of the legitimacy that young writers in the region (born between 1970 and 1990) have obtained both through the market and through the academy.