9780231168434-0231168438-Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Literature Now)

Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Literature Now)

ISBN-13: 9780231168434
ISBN-10: 0231168438
Edition: Reprint
Author: Héctor Hoyos
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780231168434
ISBN-10: 0231168438
Edition: Reprint
Author: Héctor Hoyos
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages

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Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Literature Now) (ISBN-13: 9780231168434 and ISBN-10: 0231168438), written by authors Héctor Hoyos, was published by Columbia University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Literature Now) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.4.

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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 leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature.

Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, he identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant-garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual "Nazi" histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.

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