Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

ISBN-13: 9783319924373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 219 str.

Jose Eduardo Gonzalez; Timothy R. Robbins

Opis

This edited volume is a collection of studies focusing on the depiction of the city in twenty-first century Latin American fiction.

Spis treści

1. The Spatial Turn and Twenty-First Century Latin American Fiction (José Eduardo González).- 2. Beyond the Ruins of the Organized City: Urban Experiences through the Metro in Contemporary Mexican Literature (Liesbeth François).- 3. Spectral Spaces: Haunting in the Latin American City (Marta Sierra).- 4. A Tale of Three Cities. Urban Space in the Crack Novels (1995-97) (Tomás Regalado López).- 5. The Night That Repeats Itself: Social Dystopia in Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame otra vez!), by Franz Galich (Magdalena Perkowska).- 6. Urban Debris and Networking Imperialism in Un Arte de hacer ruinas by Antonio José Ponte (Eduard Arriaga).- 7. Place Making in the Solitude of the City: Valeria Luiselli's Los ingrávidos (Cecily Raynor).- 8. Dislocated Subjects in the Global City: Santiago Gamboa’s Hotel Pekín (Camilo A. Malagón).- 9. Roberto Bolaño’s Urban Labyrinths: The City as Metaphor for the Silent Universe (Juan Pablo Melo).- 10. The Tourist Aesthetic and Empire in Rodrigo Fresán’s Mantra and Jardines de Kensington (Timothy R. Robbins).

O autorze

José Eduardo González is Associate Professor of Spanish and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is author of Appropriating Theory: Ángel Rama’s Critical Work (2017).

Timothy R. Robbins is Associate Professor of Spanish at Drury University, USA. He is co-author of Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (2015). He co-edited, with José Eduardo González, New Trends in Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon (Palgrave, 2014), a collection of critical essays on recent Latin American fiction.