Beyond Bolano - The Global Latin American Novel

Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bola￿o and the fictional work of C￿sar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, H￿ctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Globalization as Form1. Nazi Tales from the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century2. The Cosmopolitics of South--South Escapism3. All the World's a Supermarket (and All the Men and Women Merely Shoppers)4. Iconocracy and Political Theology of Narconovelas5. On Duchamp and Beuys as Latin American WritersConclusion: The Promise of MultipolarismNotesBibliographyIndex

About the author

Hector Hoyos is an assistant professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stanford University, where he teaches contemporary fiction and literary theory. He holds a Ph.D. in romance studies from Cornell University and degrees in philosophy and literature from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota.

Summary

Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, Héctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era.

Product details

• Authors: H&, Héctor Hoyos, H?ctor Hoyos, Hector Hoyos, Héctor Hoyos, Hector (Assistant Professor Hoyos, Haector Hoyos Ayala
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2015
• EAN: 9780231168427
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16842-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Literature Now; Literature Now
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Portuguese, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, literary criticism; Latin America; Caribbean; semiotics