McOndo
Sign in to saveMcOndo is a Latin American literary movement that breaks with the magical realism mode of narration, and counters it with languages borrowed from mass media. The literature of McOndo presents urban Latin American life, in opposition to the fictional rural town of Macondo.
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- History
- Etymology
- Origins
- Themes
- Global commerce
- The city and urban space
- Sex and sexual orientation
- Poverty, caste, and social class
- Quotidian life
- Notable writers
- Media
- Books
- Critical studies
- Journalism
- Comics
- Film
- Influences
- Critics and supporters
- See also
- Further reading
- Notes
McOndo is a Latin American literary movement that breaks with the magical realism mode of narration, and counters it with languages borrowed from mass media. The literature of McOndo presents urban Latin American life, in opposition to the fictional rural town of Macondo.
Initiated by Chilean writers Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez in the 1990s, the movement claims to serve as an antidote to the Macondo-ism that demanded of all aspiring Latin American writers that they set their tales in steamy tropical jungles in which the fantastic and the real happily coexist.