100 Years and the El Boom Movement

Gabriel Marquez was one of the most prominent authors of the Latin American Literary Boom. The novels and works a part of this movement were often politically engaging and told the history of a people once silenced and abandoned during colonization. Many used magical realism as a means of expressing past and current events that were almost unimaginable to westerners. These works gained widespread attention and Latin America’s once lost identity was found and marketed globally. Finally people would realize that Columbia was well as other Latin American countries were not letting their history and culture be told and identified for them.