Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

Latin American Authors and the Western Canon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvJuan E. De Castro

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At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides—like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel García Márquez—see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive.Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor226
FörlagVanderbilt University Press
ISBN9780826502490

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"A superbly written and effectively organized book that defines an innovative scholarly project and represents a timely contribution to the current debates on world literature. Conducted through the lens of canon and canonicity, it underscores the indispensable role of literary history for grasping the complexity and contradictions of canon formation. It reframes the histories of western canon in order to call attention to the foundational contributions of Latin American writers such as Borges, García Márquez, and Bolaño. It carries out a superb analysis of the specific cultural and political iconography developed through the writings of these authors as well as contemporary Indigenous intellectuals from Guatemala and Perú."—Gorica Majstorovic, author of Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America