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  • The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño

    Radical Readings

    by Benjamin Loy ...
    Translated by Jordan Lee Schnee ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with references to the Western literary canon—from French and Spanish baroque texts to American and German modernism, as well as postmodern literature from Latin America and France. Taking Bolaño’s notion of “savage ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

    An Expanding Universe

    by Chris Andrews ...
    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Fascist Mythologies

    The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt

    by Federico Finchelstein ...
    Series Book 79 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    For fascism, myth was reality—or was realer than the real. Fascist notions of the leader, the nation, power, and violence were steeped in mythic imagery and the fantasy of transcending history. A mythologized primordial past would inspire the heroic overthrow of a debased present to achieve a violently redeemed future. What is distinctive about fascist mythology, and how does this aspect of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Neobaroque in the Americas

    Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

    by Monika Kaup ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • One-Way Tickets

    Writers and the Culture of Exile

    by Alicia Borinsky ...
    In One-Way Tickets, Borinsky offers up a splendid tour across 20th-century literatures, providing a literary travelogue to writers and artists in exile. She describes their challenges in adjusting to new homelands, issues of identity and language, and the brilliant works produced under the discomforts and stresses of belonging nowhere.Speaking with the authority of first-hand experience, Borinsky ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

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  • A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature

    Edited by Miguel Tamen, Helena C. Buescu ...
    Series series Hispanic Issues
    This collection of original essays traces the history of Portuguese literature from the medieval period to the present, providing provocative new interpretations of this previously neglected literary history. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portuguese literature to students new to the field, and provides new insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject. The ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Understanding Roberto Bolano

    by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat ...
    Series series Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
    An examination of the novels, short story collections, and poetry of the Latin American authorIn Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Space In-Between

    Essays on Latin American Culture

    by Silviano Santiago, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Tom Burns, Gareth Williams, Ana Lucia Gazzola ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars even realize these terms began with Santiago. He was the first to introduce poststructuralist thought to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Anti-Literature

    The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina

    by Adam Joseph Shellhorse ...
    Series Book 76 - Illuminations
    Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by "literature." Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions. His analysis engages the work of writers such as Clarice Lispector, Oswald de ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Non-literary Fiction

    Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

    by Professor Esther Gabara ...
    Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas.With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD