Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

by Birns, Nicholas; De Castro, Juan E.; Beebee, Thomas Oliver

• ISBN13: 9781501316067
• ISBN10: 1501316060
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-01-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively "postmodern" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star, By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet, The Savage Detectives), among other works.

Author Biography

Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA. His books include The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (co-edited, 2013) and Theory After Theory (2010).

Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (2011). He is the co-editor of The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Nicholas Birns and Juan E De Castro (Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA)
1. Roberto Bolaño's Position Within Latin American and World Literature
Mabel Moraña (Washington University at St. Louis, USA)
2. The Repolitization of the Latin American Shore: Roberto Bolaño and the Dispersion of World Literature
Oswaldo Zavala (College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA)
3. Wounded Cosmopolitanism
Mariano Siskind (Harvard University, USA)
4. Misreading the New World Literature in Bolaño
Will H. Corral (Independent Scholar, USA)
5. World literature, Global literature…? 2666 and the question of placing literature"
Susana Draper (Princeton University, USA)
6. "2666 and the Border as World Literary Space"
Maarten Van Delden (UCLA, USA)
7. Roberto Bolaño's Representation of Nazism and Fascism
Federico Finchelstein (New School for Social Research, USA)
8. Bolaño and the Global Remapping of Literature
Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin, Ireland)
9. Amalfitano's Geometry of Philosophy in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
Thomas O. Beebee (Penn State University, USA)
10. Black Dawn: Roberto Bolaño and American Upheaval
Nicholas Birns (New School for Social Research, USA)
11. Bolaño, Derrida, Rancière and the Ethical Turn"
Juan E De Castro (New School for Social Research, USA)

Bibliography
Index