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.

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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
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