Long overshadowed by the subsequent 1960s Boom , Cuban novels of the 1950s have been confined to the backwater of literary analysis, often grouped together and dismissed as mere social realism like their Spanish counterparts, or described as inferior. The spatial has been similarly overlooked in literary analysis in favour of a focus on stylistic experimentation, narrative structure, characterisation and the temporal. More recently, however, theorists have argued that literature has become increasingly spatial, and that a greater focus on the spatial is needed. Furthermore, conceptions of...
Long overshadowed by the subsequent 1960s Boom , Cuban novels of the 1950s have been confined to the backwater of literary analysis, often grouped tog...
