Beyond Bolano - The Global Latin American Novel

Informationen zum Autor Héctor Hoyos is an associate 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 the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Globalization as Form 1. Nazi Tales from the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 2. The Cosmopolitics of South-South Escapism 3. All the World's a Supermarket (and All the Men and Women Merely Shoppers) 4. Iconocracy and Political Theology of Narconovelas 5. On Duchamp and Beuys as Latin American Writers Conclusion: The Promise of Multipolarism Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: H?ctor Hoyos, Hector Hoyos, Héctor Hoyos, Hector (Assistant Professor Hoyos, Haector Hoyos Ayala
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2016
• EAN: 9780231168434
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16843-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Literature Now; Literature Now
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Portugiesisch, Spanisch, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Latin America, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, 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