Overview
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 Bolano, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, Joao 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Cecily Raynor
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.003kg
ISBN: 9781684482566
ISBN 10: 1684482569
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 16 April 2021
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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-Gomez co-editor of Camara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil, as captured in turn of the 21st 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. --Hector Hoyos author of Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel Latin American Literature at the Millennium is 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, Cecily Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. This study is compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolano, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others. --Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature
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 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-Gomez co-editor of Camara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil, as captured in turn of the 21st 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. --Hector Hoyos author of Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel Latin American Literature at the Millennium is 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, Cecily Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. This study is compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolano, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others. --Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature
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-Gomez co-editor of Camara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy
Author Information
CECILY RAYNOR is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies and digital humanities at McGill University in Montreal.
