New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative : Post-National Literatures and the Canon

Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this timely collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Essays examine the anthology McOndo, which rejected magical realism as the primary literary mode of Latin America, and the Crack group, which argued for a return to more complex narrative, as turning points for Latin American narratives and for a new generation of authors. Instead of perpetuating the simple blueprint of Postboom magical realism, this volume argues that the authors studied in here combine social preoccupations, such as drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. In many cases, authors like the Crack group members, Roberto Bolano, Rodrigo Fresan, Evelio Rosero, or Ena Lucia Portela, directly dialogue with the Boom authors while other authors, like Diego Trelles Paz or Yolanda Arroyo, utilize new technologies to create dynamic creative projects "The authors of this timely collection provide a solid account of the nature of post-politics and the subsequent demise of the idea of the nation in contemporary Latin American narrative, also scrutinizing the crucial role of the Internet in the construction of a simultaneously global and local new Latin American Republic of Letters."--J. Agustin Pasten B., Professor of Latin American Literature, North Carolina State University, USA "An incisive critical and historical analysis of the newest trends in Latin American narrative, this authoritative volume captures the iconoclastic temperament of the continent's post-national literary movements at the break of the 21st century, answering the what, how, and why of the emergence of groups and figures such as McOndo, Crack, MoHo, Bolano, Volpi, and others, in the context of conflictual globalization and the shifting market forces of postmodern culture. It is an essential update to find out what comes after magical realism, the Boom, and the dissolution of the traditional literary canon."--Erik Camayd-Freixas, Professor of Spanish, Florida International University, USA and author of Etnografia imaginaria: Historia y parodia en la literatura hispanoamericana Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction Posnacionalistas: Tradition and New Writing in Latin America....Pages 1-13 From the Mexican Onda to McOndo: The Shifting Ideology of Mass Culture....Pages 15-38 Bolaño and the Canon....Pages 39-54 The Crack and Contemporary Latin American Narrative: An Introductory Study....Pages 55-83 Deep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon....Pages 85-103 The Historical and Geographical Imagination in Recent Argentine Fiction: Rodrigo Fresán and the DNA of a Globalized Writer....Pages 105-131 An Impossible Witness of The Armies....Pages 133-152 The Narco-Letrado: Intellectuals and Drug Trafficking in Darío Jaramillo Agudelo’s Cartas cruzadas....Pages 153-167 The Reader as Translator: Rewriting the Past in Contemporary Latin American Fiction....Pages 169-189 Multiple Names and Time Superposition: No Anxiety in the Electronic Poetics of Yolanda Arroyo and Diego Trelles....Pages 191-215 Of Hurricanes and Tempests: Ena Lucía Portela’s Text as a Nontourist Destination....Pages 217-237 Back Matter....Pages 239-241 "Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this timely collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Essays examine the anthology 'McOndo', which rejected magical realism as the primary literary mode of Latin America, and the Crack group, which argued for a return to more complex narrative, as turning points for Latin American narratives and for a new generation of authors. Instead of perpetuating the simple blueprint of Postboom magical realism, this volume argues that the authors studied in here combine social preoccupations, such as drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. In many cases, authors like the Crack group members, Roberto Bolano, Rodrigo Fresan, Evelio Rosero, or Ena Luc̕ia Portela, directly dialogue with the Boom authors while other authors, like Diego Trelles Paz or Yolanda Arroyo, utilize new technologies to create dynamic creative projects"--Provided by publisher