Latin American Literatures in Global Markets

Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she directs the Latin American Studies Program. She has published extensively on literary criticism and cultural theory, on topics such as the Baroque; Colonial, modern and contemporary symbolic production in Latin America; biopolitics; affects; the role of intellectuals, Andean literatures and Mexican narrative and critical thought. Among her latest collective volumes: Liquid Borders. Migration as Resistance (2021); Water Marks. Hydrocriticism in Colonial Latin America (forthcoming); Constructing the Racial Other. Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, co-Edited with Miguel Valerio (forthcoming); Poetics of Race (forthcoming) Her latest authored books include Filosofía y Crítica en América Latina. De Mariátegui a Sloterdijk (2017); Pensar el cuerpo. Historia, materialidad y símbolo (2021); Líneas de fuga. Ciudadanía, frontera y sujeto migrante (2021); ”Nosotros los bárbaros”. Tres narradores mexicanos en el siglo XXI (2022). Ana Gallego Cuiñas is Full Professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada. With undergraduate and doctorate degrees in Hispanic Philology and an undergraduate degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Granada, she has been a research contractor with the Ramón y Cajal Program and a visiting researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Princeton, Paris-Sorbonne, Buenos Aires, and Yale. Her most recent authored books are Las novelas argentinas del siglo 21: Nuevos modos de producción, circulación y recepción (2019) and Otros: Ricardo Piglia y la literatura mundial (2019). She has also published more than one hundred book chapters and articles and edited ten books on topics such as transatlantic studies, self-writing, publishing market, materialist feminism and 21st century literature. She currently directs the LETRAL project, and the "Iber-Lab" Scientific Excellence Cluster: Criticism, Languages, and Cultures in Iberoamerica.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: A Few Turns of the KaleidoscopeMabel MorañaPart 1: Word and World: (Re)Inscriptions1 The Global Alt-Right as Prefigured by Roberto BolañoHéctor Hoyos2 “En tanto poeta, ¡zas!, novelista”: On Bolaño and Latin American Poetry in the World Literature SystemJorge J. Locane3 Rejoicing Materiality: A Geological Writing by Gabriela Cabezón CámaraCristina Rivera Garza4 New Media and New Technologies in Contemporary Latin American WritingEdmundo Paz Soldán5 The Consecration and Repositioning of a Border Writer: The Phenomenon of the Publishing Market in the Work of Yuri HerreraJuan Rogelio Rosado MarreroPart 2: Latin American Genres, Themes and Writings in a Global World6 Latin American Crónicas: The World-Regional Circulation of a Local GenreJuan Poblete7 The Archives of an Exception to Come: Literature, Cinema and the World in Irmgard Emmelhainz’s El cielo está incompleto (2017)Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado8 Beyond (Cuban) Literature: Global Issues in Generation ZeroCatalina Quesada-Gómez9 The Digital Condition: Algorithms, Language, and Imagination in Latin American Digital LiteratureCarolina C. GainzaPart 3: Literary Culture and Global Consumptions10 Materialities of Literature in Latin AmericaGustavo Guerrero11 Literary Culture and Spectacle: The Boom in Literary Festivals in Latin AmericaAna Gallego Cuiñas12 Measuring the Consumption of Bibliodiversity and Foreign Literatures in Translation: Supply and Sales of Translated Books in Germany between 2007 and 2018Marco Thomas BosshardAfterword: The Latin American Writer and the Global MarketAna Gallego CuiñasIndex