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Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature
"Offers an array of disciplinary views on how theories of globalization and an emerging postnational critical imagination have impacted traditional ways of thinking about literature."--Samuel Amago, author of Spanish Cinema in the Global Context: Film on Film Moving beyond the traditional study of Hispanic literature on a nation-by-nation basis, this volume explores how globalization is currently affecting Spanish and Latin American fiction, poetry, and literary theory. Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by José Martí, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews hav...
Imagining Ecuador
Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian government suspended all banking operations and froze all bank accounts in the country for a period of five days. This episode, the Feriado Bancario, represents the peak of the worst financial crisis in the nation's history and one which had far-reaching and long-last effects on society, politics, the economy, and cultural production. The very idea of 'Ecuador' was transformed, as Ecuador became a country marked by constant interaction with the world beyond its borders. This book explores how contemporary Ecuadorian authors are reimagining the nation follo...
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies...
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on individual freedom and consumer choice as the central goals of feminist activism. The contributions to the volume discuss such varied topics as fiction by Edwidge Dandicat, Judith Ortiz-Cofer, and Diamela Eltit; visual art of Laura Aguilar and Maruja Mallo; films directed by Lucrecia Martel; a TV series based on a novel by María Dueñas; the art-activism of Ani Ganzala and Zinha Franco; and the philosophical thought of Gloria Anzaldúa. All chapters proceed from the belief in the continued usefulness of intersectionality as a valuable category of critical analysis that is particularly necessary at the time when the effects of neoliberal globalization are undermining many familiar categories of critical inquiry.
Americanized Spanish Culture
Americanized Spanish Culture explores the intricate transcultural dialogue between Spain and the United States since the late 19th century. The term "Americanized" reflects the influence of American cultural traits, ideas, and tendencies on individuals, institutions, and creative works that have moved back and forth between Spain and the United States. Although it is often defined narrowly as the result of a process of cultural imperialism, colonization, assimilation, and erasure, this book uses the term more expansively to explore representations of the transcultural mixing of Spanish and American culture in which the American influence might seem dominant but may also be the one that is sh...
Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature
This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors’ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves ...
Mining Memory
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete process. Mining Memory shows how 20th-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and collective rem...
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes
Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as...
Reimaginar la niñez: memoria y sujeto nacional en las narrativas de infancia del Perú
Mediante un análisis detallado de obras narrativas, fotografías y películas, este libro examina cómo las representaciones de la infancia no solo sirven para documentar pasados personales, sino también para representar la identidad nacional como un proceso dinámico e incompleto. De este modo, las narraciones y las películas seleccionadas reimaginan el yo y la nación por medio de la representación de protagonistas niños y adolescentes. La figura del niño, tanto como emblema de la memoria colectiva como de un proyecto utópico siempre postergado, ofrece una óptica privilegiada para vislumbrar, criticar y reimaginar los orígenes de las diversas crisis que la nación afronta.
Bibliotecas de escritores
Los libros siempre han acompañado a los escritores. Son para ellos amigos, guías, ejemplos, estímulos, desafíos. Muchos autores descubren el mundo y se conocen a sí mismos en las páginas imaginadas por otros, que a menudo también les revelan su propia vocación. Unos conviven con los libros desde una edad muy temprana, pues forman parte del entorno familiar; otros los encuentran más tarde, en la escuela, en una biblioteca pública, en casas y espacios ajenos. Cada uno lee donde puede y como puede, y en sus lecturas halla técnicas e inspiración para crear su universo literario personal. Este volumen reúne las experiencias lectoras de autores como Cervantes, Pérez Galdós, García Lorca, Ortega y Gasset o Rosa Regàs, y también, contadas por ellos mismos, las de Jesús Ferrero, Gustavo Martín Garzo y Enrique Vila-Matas. A pesar de su diversidad, todos coinciden en un punto: sin los libros, difícilmente habrían desarrollado el talento que los llevó a ser escritores.
