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# Magical Realism & The Latin American Boom
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/crash-course-latin-american-literature/episode/magical-realism-the-latin-american-boom-tymdbm/
- Published: 2025-11-14T08:05:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-14T09:00:40.000Z
- Description: How did “Latin American literature” come to be?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Crash Course Latin American Literature, Season 1, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_bf2fa424-3e80-45f3-b756-688e568f8c70, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_9fecd386-40a6-4615-a85e-0ed57fa9ce84, #v1.16

How did “Latin American literature” come to be? In this episode of Crash Course Latin American Literature, we trace the origins of this region’s stories from the pre-Columbian era all the way to the Boom of the 1960s.