... and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. Twenty million Latin American children died before the age of one. Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. New cultural ideas ... public.6 These factors provided for a situation favorable to a widespread literary and cultural change. The novels written before and during the "Boom" are linked together by defining c...

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