New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative

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.

"The authors of this timely collection provide a solid account of the nature of post-politics and the subsequent demise of the idea of the nation in contemporary Latin American narrative, also scrutinizing the crucial role of the Internet in the construction of a simultaneously global and local new Latin American Republic of Letters." - J. Agustín Pastén B., Professor of Latin American Literature, North Carolina State University, USA

"An incisive critical and historical analysis of the newest trends in Latin American narrative, this authoritative volume captures the iconoclastic temperament of the continent's post-national literary movements at the break of the 21st century, answering the what, how, and why of the emergence of groups and figures such as McOndo, Crack, MoHo, Bolaño, Volpi, and others, in the context of conflictual globalization and the shifting market forces of postmodern culture. It is an essential update to find out what comes after magical realism, the Boom, and the dissolution of the traditional literary canon." - Erik Camayd-Freixas, Professor of Spanish, Florida International University, USA and author of Etnografía imaginaria: Historia y parodia en la literatura hispanoamericana

Autorentext
Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, Emory University, USA Alberto Fonseca, North Central College, USA Tomás Regalado López, James Madison University, USA Gerardo Cruz-Grunerth, Writer, Mexico Eduard Arriaga-Arango, Western University, Canada Lotte Buiting, Harvard University, USA Janet Hendrickson, Translator, USA Emilse B. Hidalgo, IRICE-Conicet, Argentina

Inhalt
Introduction: Posnacionalistas: Tradition and New Writing in Latin America; Timothy R. Robbins and José Eduardo González 1. From the Mexican Onda to McOndo: The Shifting Ideology of Mass Culture; Timothy R. Robbins 2. Bolaño and the Canon; Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat 3. CRACK and Contemporary Latin American Narrative: An Introductory Study; Tomás Regalado López 4. Deep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon; Gerardo Cruz-Grunerth 5. The Historical and Geographical Imagination in Recent Argentine Fiction: Rodrigo Fresán and the DNA of a Globalized Writer; Emilse B. Hidalgo 6. An Impossible Witness of The Armies; Lotte Buiting 7. The Narco-Letrado: Intellectuals and Drug Trafficking in Darío Jaramillo Agudelo's Cartas cruzadas; Alberto Fonseca 8. The Reader as Translator: Rewriting the Past in Contemporary Latin American Fiction; Janet Hendrickson 9. Multiple Names and Temporal Superpositions: Yolanda Arroyo's and Diego Trellez's Digital Poetics; Eduard Arriaga-Arango 10. Of Hurricanes and Tempests: Ena Lucía Portela's Text as a Non-Tourist Destination; José Eduardo González