Hoyos Beyond Bolaño

The Global Latin American Novel
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53866-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Literature Now

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoyos, Héctor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Brasilianische Literatur, Portugiesische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.