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Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by José Martí, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. Whether analyzing the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile, the theme of masculinity in This Is How You Lose Her, or the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself, they show how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations. Drawing from a range of fields including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, these essays help characterize a new “world” literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity.

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Some readers will argue that this volume is episodic even picaresque in its approach, but it is thoughtful and definitely worth reading. - Bulletin of Spanish Studies

"""Some readers will argue that this volume is episodic even picaresque in its approach, but it is thoughtful and definitely worth reading."" — Bulletin of Spanish Studies"

""Some readers will argue that this volume is episodic even picaresque in its approach, but it is thoughtful and definitely worth reading."" — Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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Heike Scharm, associate professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida, is the author of El Tiempo y el Ser en Javier Marias. Natalia Matta-Jara is a Spanish teacher at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.

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