Overview

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively ""postmodern"" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star, By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet, The Savage Detectives), among other works.

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Author:   Professor Nicholas Birns (New York University, USA) ,  Professor Juan E. De Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781501316067

ISBN 10:   1501316060
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Fractured Masterpieces Nicholas Birns (College of New Rochelle, USA) and Juan E De Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA) I. Bolaño and World History 1. On Fascism, history and evil in Roberto Bolaño Federico Finchelstein (The New School, USA) 2. “More Culture!”: The Rules of Art in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile Thomas Beebee (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 3. Politics and Ethics in Latin America: On Roberto Bolaño Juan E. De Castro (The New School,USA) 4. The Repolitization of the Latin American Shore: Roberto Bolaño and the Dispersion of “World Literature” Oswaldo Zavala (City University of New York, USA) II. Bolaño’s Literary Worlds 5. Bolaño, Ethics, and the Experts Will H. Corral (Independent Scholar) 6. Considerations on the Real and Reality in Juan Luis Martínez’s La nueva novela and in Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives Patricia Espinosa H. (Instituto de Estética, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 7. Global Bolaño: Reading, Writing and Publishing in a Neoliberal World José Enrique Navarro (Wichita State University, USA) III. Bolaño’s Global Readers 8. Mocking World Literature and Canon Parodies in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction Benjamin Loy (University of Köln, Germany) 9. On Depoliticized Politics: Roberto Bolaño’s Reception in China Teng Wei (South China Normal University, China) 10. Black Dawn: Roberto Bolaño as (North) American Writer Nicholas Birns (College of New Rochelle, USA) 11. Roberto Bolaño and the Remapping of World-Literature Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin,UK) Index

Reviews

This timely collection of essays on the place of Bolano's oeuvre in world literature explores the Chilean author's vision of history, his literary worlds, and the reception he has had worldwide. Essays by renowned experts analyze, through the analysis of some of Bolano's main works, his cosmopolitanism, the global framework in which his plots take place, and the reasons behind his impressive success as a writer that embodies Latin American literature after the Boom. Ultimately, the author emerges as a figure beyond one particular nation, political inclination, or cause. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of California, Merced, USA Expertly assembled and introduced by the editors, this collection offers incisive explorations of Roberto Bolano's politics and of his place on the complex map of world literature. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the great Chilean author's work, and in the cosmopolitan dimension of Latin American literature. Maarten van Delden, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Author Website:   nicholas.birns@gmail.com

Nicholas Birns is Associate Professor at New York University, USA. His books include The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (co-edited, 2013) and Theory After Theory (2010). Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (2011). He is the co-editor of The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (2013).

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Author Website:   nicholas.birns@gmail.com

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