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McOndo Revisited is a major contribution to the study of one of the critical moments of Latin American literature's ongoing struggle to be a part of world literature. The concept of ""Latin American Literature-World"" developed in these pages will reorient many discussions in the years to come. This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio G�mez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.

McOndo Revisited is a major contribution to the study of one of the critical moments of Latin American literature's ongoing struggle to be a part of world literature. The concept of ""Latin American Literature-World"" developed in these pages will reorient many discussions in the years to come. This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.

"This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.--Juan Poblete, University of California-Santa Cruz, editor of ""New Approaches to Latin American Studies"""

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Thomas Nulley-Valdés is assistant professor in Spanish studies at The Australian National University.

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