La novela histórica de fin del siglo XX: de inflexión literaria y gesto político a retórica del consumo

Abstract

This work reviews, in the first place, some features of the development of the historical novel in Latin America, and secondly, its recent production, starting from two predictable but fundamental questions: why the historical novel should resuscitate in the final decades of the 20th century, with these characteristics, and what role it is to play in the
socio-historical and cultural context of the continent’s fin de siècle. It starts out from a basic premise: the historical novel is a representation that reflects a certain consciousness as well as the material or symbolic conditions of the production of social reality. Changes in these conditions are therefore reflected in recent historical novels.