Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spacesanalyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno 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.
Latin American Literature at the Millenniumstudies canonical and peripheral literary texts that complicate links between locality and geographical place, revealing new configurations of the local. It explores the region’s transition into the twenty-first century and evaluates Latin American authors’ reconciliation of conflicting forces in their construction of everyday places and modes of belonging.
CECILY RAYNORis an assistant professor of Hispanic studies and digital humanities at McGill University in Montreal.
“A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others.”
"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus ofLatin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into lC1