TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raynor,Cecily
TI  - Latin American literature at the millennium: local lives, global spaces 
SN  - 9781684482603
AV  - PN849.L29 R39 2021
U1  - 863/.60998 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Latin American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Local color in literature
KW  - Regionalism in literature
KW  - Globalization in literature
KW  - Roman latino-américain
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Couleur locale dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature régionale
KW  - Mondialisation dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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 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. It examines relevant theory on globalization and historical context, including a discussion of the political and economic forces at work when considering Latin America's engagement with global processes. Across its chapters, it traces localizing techniques in canonical works as well as under-studied and peripheral texts, exploring "local" as a plural concept constructed through language, memory, and patterned affective attachments. Students and scholars of Hispanic and Lusophone studies will find it to be a critical text"--
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