Postcolonial and Global Movements

Movements defined by a national or colonial literature asserting its own identity outside the European and North American mainstream: negritude's affirmation of Black identity across the Francophone world, magical realism's blending of the everyday and the fantastic most associated with Latin American fiction, the Latin American Boom's international emergence of that fiction, and postcolonial literature as the broader movement addressing the legacy of colonialism. Belongs here: a movement centered on a non-Western or formerly colonized literary tradition asserting its own voice. Does not belong here: a European or North American movement of the same period, tracked under the postwar and existentialist group above.