Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones.

Autorentext
Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, Emory University, USA Alberto Fonseca, North Central College, USA Tomás Regalado López, James Madison University, USA Gerardo Cruz-Grunerth, Writer, Mexico Eduard Arriaga-Arango, Western University, Canada Lotte Buiting, Harvard University, USA Janet Hendrickson, Translator, USA Emilse B. Hidalgo, IRICE-Conicet, Argentina

Inhalt
Introduction: Posnacionalistas: Tradition and New Writing in Latin America; Timothy R. Robbins and José Eduardo González 1. From the Mexican Onda to McOndo: The Shifting Ideology of Mass Culture; Timothy R. Robbins 2. Bolaño and the Canon; Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat 3. CRACK and Contemporary Latin American Narrative: An Introductory Study; Tomás Regalado López 4. Deep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon; Gerardo Cruz-Grunerth 5. The Historical and Geographical Imagination in Recent Argentine Fiction: Rodrigo Fresán and the DNA of a Globalized Writer; Emilse B. Hidalgo 6. An Impossible Witness of The Armies; Lotte Buiting 7. The Narco-Letrado: Intellectuals and Drug Trafficking in Darío Jaramillo Agudelo's Cartas cruzadas; Alberto Fonseca 8. The Reader as Translator: Rewriting the Past in Contemporary Latin American Fiction; Janet Hendrickson 9. Multiple Names and Temporal Superpositions: Yolanda Arroyo's and Diego Trellez's Digital Poetics; Eduard Arriaga-Arango 10. Of Hurricanes and Tempests: Ena Lucía Portela's Text as a Non-Tourist Destination; José Eduardo González