Latin American Boom

E18043

cultural phenomenon literary movement

The Latin American Boom was a mid-20th-century literary movement in which innovative Latin American novelists gained global prominence through experimental narratives and magical realism.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Latin American Boom canonical	74
Latin American Boom writers	5
Boom Latinoamericano	4
Boom latinoamericano	4
Latin American Boom literature	4
Boom of Latin American literature	3
Latin American Boom (late phase)	1
Latin American Boom (periphery)	1
Latin American Boom movement	1
Latin American Boom novelists	1
Latin American Boom tradition	1
Latin American literary Boom	1
Latin American literary boom	1
Latin American post-boom	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150220 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Latin American Boom
Context triple: [Gabriel García Márquez, movement, Latin American Boom]

A. Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
B. Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
C. Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, renowned as a key figure in Latin American literature and an early pioneer of magical realism.
D. Latin America
Latin America is a culturally diverse region of the Americas, spanning Mexico, Central and South America, and much of the Caribbean, where Romance languages—primarily Spanish and Portuguese—predominate.
E. Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Latin American Boom
Target entity description: The Latin American Boom was a mid-20th-century literary movement in which innovative Latin American novelists gained global prominence through experimental narratives and magical realism.

A. Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance was a late 20th-century literary movement marked by a surge of works by Indigenous authors in the United States that foregrounded Native histories, cultures, and identities within contemporary American literature.
B. Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
C. Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, renowned as a key figure in Latin American literature and an early pioneer of magical realism.
D. Latin America
Latin America is a culturally diverse region of the Americas, spanning Mexico, Central and South America, and much of the Caribbean, where Romance languages—primarily Spanish and Portuguese—predominate.
E. Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural phenomenon ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
associatedConcept	lo real maravilloso ⓘ magical realism ⓘ
emergedInContextOf	Cold War ⓘ Cuban Revolution ⓘ rapid urbanization in Latin America ⓘ
endPeriod	1970s ⓘ
field	literature ⓘ narrative fiction ⓘ
followedBy	Post-Boom ⓘ
gainedVisibilityThrough	European publishing houses ⓘ Spanish-language literary prizes ⓘ translation into English ⓘ
genreFocus	novel ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Boom latinoamericano ⓘ linked to: Latin American Boom Latin American literary Boom ⓘ linked to: Latin American Boom
hasCharacteristic	cosmopolitan outlook ⓘ experimental narrative techniques ⓘ formal innovation ⓘ magical realism ⓘ multiple perspectives ⓘ nonlinear storytelling ⓘ political engagement ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Latin American cultural identity ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ world literature ⓘ
language	Spanish ⓘ
mainRegion	Latin America ⓘ
notableAuthor	Alejo Carpentier ⓘ Carlos Fuentes ⓘ Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ José Donoso ⓘ Juan Rulfo ⓘ Julio Cortázar ⓘ Manuel Puig ⓘ Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ
notableWork	One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ Rayuela ⓘ The Death of Artemio Cruz ⓘ The Kingdom of This World ⓘ The Obscene Bird of Night ⓘ The Time of the Hero ⓘ
precededBy	Latin American regionalist novel ⓘ
startPeriod	1960s ⓘ
typicalTheme	dictatorship and authoritarianism ⓘ history and memory ⓘ identity and hybridity ⓘ social injustice ⓘ

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Referenced by (102)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gabriel García Márquez → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

One Hundred Years of Solitude → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

No One Writes to the Colonel → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

In Evil Hour → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

magical realism → emergedFrom → Latin American literary boom ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

Latin American Boom → hasAlternativeName → Boom latinoamericano ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

Latin American Boom → hasAlternativeName → Latin American literary Boom ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

Macondo → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Love in the Time of Cholera → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Of Love and Other Demons → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Autumn of the Patriarch → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Leaf Storm → literaryMovement → Boom of Latin American literature ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

Strange Pilgrims → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Alejo Carpentier → influenced → Latin American Boom writers ⓘ

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Mercedes Barcha → associatedWith → Latin American Boom ⓘ

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Mario Vargas Llosa → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Death of Artemio Cruz → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Editorial Sudamericana → associatedWith → Latin American Boom movement ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

José Arcadio Buendía → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Remedios the Beauty → literaryPeriod → Boom of Latin American literature ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

Rayuela → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Time of the Hero → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Obscene Bird of Night → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Kingdom of This World → influenced → Latin American Boom ⓘ

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Big Mama’s Funeral → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Bayardo San Román → literaryPeriod → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Julio Cortázar → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Carlos Fuentes → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

I Only Came to Use the Phone → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

The Ghosts of August → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Light Is Like Water → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Doce cuentos peregrinos → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

José Donoso → movement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

I Sell My Dreams → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

María dos Prazeres → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Of Love and Shadows → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Los pasos perdidos → hasInfluenceOn → Latin American Boom literature ⓘ

linked to: Latin American Boom

El siglo de las luces → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Explosion in a Cathedral → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Concierto barroco → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

Gregory Rabassa → genre → Latin American Boom literature ⓘ

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El Aleph → influenced → Latin American Boom writers ⓘ

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El otoño del patriarca → literaryMovement → Latin American Boom ⓘ

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