Autobiography has never been foreign to Latin American literature. However, during the twentieth century, the production of autobiographical writing has only intensified. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Latin American writings of the self (autobiographies, journals, memoirs) have emerged as a rich and varied corpus of Latin American literature, both for the quantity of texts and for reasons of aesthetic relevance. How can this development be explained? What change, if any, has taken place that can explain this narrative inflection? To what drives or cultural logics does it respond?...
Autobiography has never been foreign to Latin American literature. However, during the twentieth century, the production of autobiographical writin...
