Latin American literature at the millennium : local lives, global spaces /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Raynor, Cecily (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]
Series:	Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Subjects:	Latin American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Latin American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. Local color in literature. Regionalism in literature. Globalization in literature. Literature and globalization > Latin America > History > 20th century. Literature and globalization > Latin America > History > 21st century. Latin American fiction. Literature and globalization. Latin America. 1900-2099 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Patterning the local within the global
Migration chronotypes : mobile spaces and fluid time in two Brazilian novels
Speed control : the politics of mobility in 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 Faces in the crowd
Conclusion: 'Ser de un intervalo'
Appendix: Testing regionalism, migrant narratives, and the construction of Brazil, an interview with Luiz Ruffato.