New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative

Post-National Literatures and the Canon

T. Robbins, J. González, T. Robbins, J. González

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137444714
• Print ISBN:
  9781137444707
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism

Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Introduction  Posnacionalistas: Tradition and New Writing in Latin America
• Chapter 1  From the Mexican Onda to McOndo: The Shifting Ideology of Mass Culture
• Chapter 2  Bolaño and the Canon
• Chapter 3  The Crack and Contemporary Latin American Narrative: An Introductory Study
• Chapter 4  Deep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon
• Chapter 5  The Historical and Geographical Imagination in Recent Argentine Fiction: Rodrigo Fresán and the DNA of a Globalized Writer
• Chapter 6  An Impossible Witness of The Armies
• Chapter 7  The Narco-Letrado: Intellectuals and Drug Trafficking in Darío Jaramillo Agudelo’s Cartas cruzadas
• Chapter 8  The Reader as Translator: Rewriting the Past in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
• Chapter 9  Multiple Names and Time Superposition: No Anxiety in the Electronic Poetics of Yolanda Arroyo and Diego Trelles
• Chapter 10  Of Hurricanes and Tempests: Ena Lucía Portela’s Text as a Nontourist Destination
• Index