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Though the literary boom occurred while Latin America was having commercial success, the works of this period tended to move away from the positives of the modernization that was underway. Instead literary works focused on the problems and injustices that people were suffering across Latin America. Political turmoil in Latin American countries such as Cuba at this time influenced the literary boom as well. Some works anticipated an end to the prosperity that was occurring, and even predicted old problems would resurface in the near future. Some historians believe that great authors emerge when a country is about to undergo a historical transformation. Their works foreshadowed the events to come in the future of Latin America, with the 1970s and 1980s full of dictatorships, economic turmoil, and Dirty Wars .
For more information on this topic consult ''Identity and Modernity in Latin America'' by Jorge Larrain. Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2000. |