Appendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato. Migration Chronotypes : Imagining Time and Space in Two Brazilian Novels -- Speed Control : The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and Its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola -- Ambivalent Spaces: Allegories of Ruin in Bernardo Carvalho's Teatro and Gilberto Noll's Harmada -- Another City and Another Life : Writing Multitudes in Valeria Luiselli's Los ingrávidos -- Conclusion: 'Ser de un intervalo' -- Appendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato.
Summary:
"Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Luiz Ruffato, Wilson Bueno, Roberto Bolaño, João Gilberto Noll, and Bernardo Carvalho 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 examines relevant theory on globalization and historical context, including a discussion of the political and economic forces at work when considering Latin America's engagement with global processes. Across its chapters, it traces localizing techniques in canonical works as well as under-studied and peripheral texts, exploring "local" as a plural concept constructed through language, memory, and patterned affective attachments. Students and scholars of Hispanic and Lusophone studies will find it to be a critical text"-- Provided by publisher
Series:
Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
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