The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production

ISBN-13: 9780230606258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 213 str.

Juan E. de Castro; Juan E. de Castro

Opis

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Criollo Location of Culture and the Spaces of Latin American Literature * Sor Juana, Lunarejo, The Colonial Literary Space, and Its Limits * Rubén Darío Visits Ricardo Palma: Tradition, Cosmopolitanism, and the Development of an Independent Latin American Literature * The Intellectual Meridian Debate and Colonialist Nostalgia * Jorge Luis Borges and (Western) Tradition * Caetano Veloso: Tropical Truth and Tropical Questions * Reading, Publishing, and Writing Networks: The Hispanophone and Latin American Literary Spaces in the Twenty-First Century * The Movies of My Life, or a Bridge to North America * Epilogue: Latin America Beyond Latin America?

O autorze

Juan E. De Castro is an associate professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He is author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002).