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One section of a book titled for this place describes the impact of “King Sugar and Other Agricultural Monarchs.” A book by Antonio Pigafetta exemplifies the “outsize reality” of this place per the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature lecture, which describes its (20[1])isolation. (20[3]0[1])Eduardo Galeano (0[1])(“gah-lay-AH-no”) wrote a book (0[1])about this (20[1])place’s “Open Veins.” (20[3])The start of a movement (0[1])named for this place has been dated both to the publication of a novel with a “Table of Instructions” (20[1])titled (0[1])(*) Hopscotch (10[1])and to the (0[1])publication of The Time of the Hero. The name of that movement referenced an “explosion” in the reputation of authors from (0[1])this transnational (10[1]0[1])region (10[1]0[1])like (10[2])Julio (10[1]0[1])Cortázar. (10[1])For 10 points, (0[1])a 1960s literary “Boom” is named after (10[1])what large (10[1])region (0[1])home to many Spanish-speaking authors? (10[5])■END■ (10[9]0[2])

ANSWER: Latin America [or América Latina; accept Latin American Boom or Boom latinoamericano; accept Open Veins of Latin America or Las venas abiertas de América Latina; accept The Solitude of Latin America; prompt on the Americas]
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