Latin American Literature at the Millennium : : Local Lives, Global Spaces / / Cecily Raynor.

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• VerfasserIn: Raynor, Cecily,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.) :; 9 color images

Latin American Literature at the Millennium analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João 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. It further examines relevant theory on globalization and historical context, discussing the political and economic forces at work in Latin America’s engagement with global processes. Across chapters, Raynor traces localizing techniques in canonical works as well as understudied and peripheral texts, deftly exploring the “local” as a plural concept constructed through language, memory, and attachment to place.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Patterning the Local within the Global -- 1 Migration Chronotopes: Imagining Time and Space in Two Brazilian Novels -- 2 Speed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola -- 3 Ambivalent Spaces: Allegories of Ruin in Bernardo Carvalho’s Teatro and Gilberto Noll’s Harmada -- 4 Another City and Another Life: Writing Multitudes in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos -- Conclusion: Ser de un interval -- Appendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index