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Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature
Title
Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature [electronic resource] / edited by Heike Scharm and Natalia Matta Jara.
ISBN
0813052017
9780813052014
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Gainesville [Florida] : University Press of Florida, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (227 pages) :) : illustrations, map
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
Moving beyond the traditional study of Hispanic literature on a nation-by-nation basis, this volume explores how globalization affects Spanish and Latin American fiction, poetry, and literary theory. Featuring contributions of scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Europe to demonstrate how Hispanic literature transcends the nation-state, the essays cross national and cultural boundaries. They draw from a range of fields, including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, characterizing a new "world literature" that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity. In this innovative collection, contributors examine works by Jose Marti, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Wifredo Lam, and others. They propose that the Spanish language itself is postnational--a cosmopolitan mixture of Iberian regionalisms and indigenous American languages, its heterogeneity allowing speakers to connect across nationalities. They analyze the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile who neither seeks to recover a lost identity nor assimilate into new environments but instead creates bonds that are not based on national origins. They survey the various explorations of masculinity in Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her and Juan Francisco Ferre's Karnaval. They probe the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself in Cecilia Vicuna's poetry, which addresses readers in Spanish, English, and Quechua and identifies a common root. This volume shows how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations and how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Project MUSE - 2017 Literature.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-219) and index.
Contents
part I. Postnational perspectives on Hispanism and theory
Space, subjectivity, and literary studies in the age of globalization / Nil Santiáñez
Imaginations from a history of space to a history of movement : Cuba between island-world and world of islands / Ottmar Ette
A postnational critique of language : the Baroque algorithm / Julio Ortega
part II. Postnational perspectives on identity and belonging
Beyond borders : language and postnational identity in Cecilia Vicuña's I tu / Silvia Goldman
Postnational masculinities and globalization in Junot Díaz and Juan Francisco Ferré / Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pérez
Voluntary exiles, new identities, and the emergence of a postnational sensibility in contemporary Latin American literature / Francisco Brignole
part III. Postnational perspectives and new world literatures
The classical tradition of cosmopolitan "spiritual exercises" in Jorge Luis Borges and Latin American postnational literature / Bernat Castany Prado
Cosmopolitan postnationalists : the case of Virgilio Piñera and Wifredo Lam / Francisco Fernández de Alba
The postnational reception of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento / Maarten Steenmeijer.
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