Overview
- Interrogates connections between transformation of urban space in the last three decades and the new modes of writing fiction in Latin America
- Assesses how global and transnational components are incorporated into Latin American literature and culture
- Questions whether or not depictions of a new kind of city require new aesthetic projects
Part of the book series: Hispanic Urban Studies (HUS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
José Eduardo González is Associate Professor of Spanish and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is author of Appropriating Theory: Ángel Rama’s Critical Work (2017).
Timothy R. Robbins is Associate Professor of Spanish at Drury University, USA. He is co-author of Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (2015). He co-edited, with José Eduardo González, New Trends in Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon (Palgrave, 2014), a collection of critical essays on recent Latin American fiction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Editors: José Eduardo González, Timothy R. Robbins
Series Title: Hispanic Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92438-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92437-3Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06430-3Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92438-0Published: 29 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 219
Topics: Latin American Culture, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Urban Studies/Sociology, Global/International Culture