Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018: Volume 5

Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production.

Mónica Szurmuk (Edited by), Debra A. Castillo (Edited by)

9781108838764, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2022

350 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 kg

How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced in formidable ways.

Introduction
Part I. Security: 1. Geological writings Cristina Rivera-Garza
2. Literature, trauma, and human rights Ana Forcinito
3. Literatura de Hijos in post-dictatorship South America Jordana Blejmar
4. Mexican narconarratives after 'Narcos' Oswaldo Zavala
Part II. New Genres: 5. Speculative fiction Liliana Colanzi
6. Latin American digital literatura Silvana Mandolessi
7. Children's literature in Latin America from school to marketplace and beyond Alejandra Josiowicz
8. Paraliterature Janet Hendrickson
9. Performance studies Analola Santana
10. Graphing a hemispheric history of latinx comics creation Frederick Luis Aldama
11. New poetry, fresh approaches Jill Kuhnheim
Part III. Mobilities: 12. New Latinx/Chicanx thought Ariana E. Vigil
13. The boundless dramas of dancing Mulatas Honey Crawford
14. Contemporary stories of deportation and migration Robert McKee Irwin
15. The Language Shift of Literary Studies on Abiayala Juan G. Sánchez Martínez
16. South Asia and Latin America/comparative booms Roanne Kantor
Part IV. Positionalities: 17. Linguistic and literary tensions in contemporary Paraguay Carla Daniela Benisz and Rodrigo N. Villalba Rojas
18. The remaking of the “New Man” in queer Cuban cinema Dara E. Goldman
19. Dissident sexualities in Southern-Cone literature Laura Arnés and Nora Domínguez
20. Queer feminism in Latin American hip hop Melissa Castillo Planas
21. Figures of the impersonal in contemporary Latin American Culture Florencia Garramuño
Part V. LA literature in Global Markets: 22. Latin American literature and criticism in the global market Graciela Montaldo
23. Doing Brazilian Digital Cultural studies Tori Holmes
24. Mexican transnational cinema in the 21st century Maricruz Castro Ricalde.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]