Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces

Cecily Raynor

Published by Bucknell University Press 2021

Latin American Literature at the Millennium

Local Lives, Global Spaces

Cecily Raynor

In the series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482603

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About this book

Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.

Author / Editor information

CECILY RAYNOR is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies and digital humanities at McGill University in Montreal.

Reviews

“A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others.”

— Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature

"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus of Latin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into discussions on migration, acceleration, spaciality and the multitude. Through its chapters, the travails of local spaces in an integrated world come to bear on the literary historiography of the region."

— Héctor Hoyos, author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

"Local Lives, Global Spaces outlines the relationship between globalization and literature in Latin America, offering a key contribution to an exciting, emerging field. Critics and scholars working in the fields of Spanish American and Brazilian literature, narrative theory, and contemporary fiction will also benefit from this book."

— Catalina Quesada-Gómez, co-editor of Cámara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy

"Dr. Raynor’s book approaches globalization from an unexpected and little explored angle. Through detailed textual analysis, careful contextualization of literary works, and perspicacious dialogue with critical works, Dr. Raynor shows how Latin American literature questions entrenched (though not immutable) dynamics of power and, thereby proposes other ways of understanding not only the region’s cultural production, but also how we understand the role that world literature plays in interrogating relations of political and cultural power."

— Leila Lehnen, author of Citizenship and Crises in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

"Specialists on the Latin American novel and those with an interest in Brazilian literature constitute the primary audience for this book."

— Hispania

"This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Latin American fiction."

— Luso-Brazilian Review

"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus of Latin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into discussions on migration, acceleration, spaciality and the multitude. Through its chapters, the travails of local spaces in an integrated world come to bear on the literary historiography of the region."

— Héctor Hoyos, author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

"Dr. Raynor’s book approaches globalization from an unexpected and little explored angle. Through detailed textual analysis, careful contextualization of literary works, and perspicacious dialogue with critical works, Dr. Raynor shows how Latin American literature questions entrenched (though not immutable) dynamics of power and, thereby proposes other ways of understanding not only the region’s cultural production, but also how we understand the role that world literature plays in interrogating relations of political and cultural power."

— Leila Lehnen, author of Citizenship and Crises in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

"Specialists on the Latin American novel and those with an interest in Brazilian literature constitute the primary audience for this book."

— Hispania

"Local Lives, Global Spaces outlines the relationship between globalization and literature in Latin America, offering a key contribution to an exciting, emerging field. Critics and scholars working in the fields of Spanish American and Brazilian literature, narrative theory, and contemporary fiction will also benefit from this book."

— Catalina Quesada-Gómez, co-editor of Cámara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy

“A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others.”

— Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question

"This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Latin American fiction."

— Luso-Brazilian Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Patterning the Local within the Global Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Migration Chronotopes: Imagining Time and Space in Two Brazilian Novels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 Speed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 Ambivalent Spaces: Allegories of Ruin in Bernardo Carvalho’s Teatro and Gilberto Noll’s Harmada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4 Another City and Another Life: Writing Multitudes in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Conclusion: Ser de un interval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Appendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
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Language: English
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Illustrations
- Other: 9 color images
Keywords: globalization; Latin America; spatial theory; human geography; Lusophone studies; early 1990s; mid 2010s; twenty-first century; Latin American; Hispanic studies; Brazilian; Brazil; Bolaño’s 2666; Teatro and Gilberto; Bernardo Carvalho; Gilberto Noll; Harmada

eBook

Published: April 16, 2021
ISBN: 9781684482603