Patrick Dove is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University and the author of The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tonalities of Literature in Post-dictatorship Argentina: Mood and History in Post-Utopian Times2. Mediatization and the Literary Neo-Avant-Garde in Argentina3. The Dis-jointures of History: Market, Virtuoso Labor, and Natural History in Post-dictatorship Chile4. Literary Contretemps: Histories of Love, Labor, and Abandonment5. Repetition or Interruption?: The Fate of Modernity in the Time of Globalization and Global WarAfterword: From Ciudad Juárez to Latin AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex

"…a pioneering, even polemical, work that marks an inflection point in Latin American literary and cultural studies and, for that reason, should be essential reading for all Latin Americanists." — Latin American Literary Review"This is a first-rate, timely, and rigorously theorized intervention that everyone in the field of Latin American literary and cultural studies will have to read, teach, discuss, and cite." — Charles Hatfield, author of The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America"Transitioning from literary analysis of Latin American novels to political theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and back, Dove brilliantly performs one of the most difficult tasks of the critic: to think the 'history of the present.' Rather than engaging in blind celebrations of globalization, Dove fearlessly looks straight into the eye of the storm, deploying new vocabularies to helps us grasp contemporary precariousness, new forms of violence, and increasing inequality. In so doing, he mounts a bracing critique of the almost comedic way in which our outdated critical weapons keep firing at the wrong targets. A must read for Latinamericanists and comparatists, as well as for scholars interested in putting interdisciplinarity to work." — Moira Fradinger, author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins

Patrick Dove is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University and the author of The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tonalities of Literature in Post-dictatorship Argentina: Mood and History in Post-Utopian Times2. Mediatization and the Literary Neo-Avant-Garde in Argentina3. The Dis-jointures of History: Market, Virtuoso Labor, and Natural History in Post-dictatorship Chile4. Literary Contretemps: Histories of Love, Labor, and Abandonment5. Repetition or Interruption?: The Fate of Modernity in the Time of Globalization and Global WarAfterword: From Ciudad Juárez to Latin AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex

"…a pioneering, even polemical, work that marks an inflection point in Latin American literary and cultural studies and, for that reason, should be essential reading for all Latin Americanists." — Latin American Literary Review"This is a first-rate, timely, and rigorously theorized intervention that everyone in the field of Latin American literary and cultural studies will have to read, teach, discuss, and cite." — Charles Hatfield, author of The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America"Transitioning from literary analysis of Latin American novels to political theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and back, Dove brilliantly performs one of the most difficult tasks of the critic: to think the 'history of the present.' Rather than engaging in blind celebrations of globalization, Dove fearlessly looks straight into the eye of the storm, deploying new vocabularies to helps us grasp contemporary precariousness, new forms of violence, and increasing inequality. In so doing, he mounts a bracing critique of the almost comedic way in which our outdated critical weapons keep firing at the wrong targets. A must read for Latinamericanists and comparatists, as well as for scholars interested in putting interdisciplinarity to work." — Moira Fradinger, author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins

Patrick Dove is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University and the author of The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Tonalities of Literature in Post-dictatorship Argentina: Mood and History in Post-Utopian Times2. Mediatization and the Literary Neo-Avant-Garde in Argentina3. The Dis-jointures of History: Market, Virtuoso Labor, and Natural History in Post-dictatorship Chile4. Literary Contretemps: Histories of Love, Labor, and Abandonment5. Repetition or Interruption?: The Fate of Modernity in the Time of Globalization and Global WarAfterword: From Ciudad Juárez to Latin AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex

"…a pioneering, even polemical, work that marks an inflection point in Latin American literary and cultural studies and, for that reason, should be essential reading for all Latin Americanists." — Latin American Literary Review"This is a first-rate, timely, and rigorously theorized intervention that everyone in the field of Latin American literary and cultural studies will have to read, teach, discuss, and cite." — Charles Hatfield, author of The Limits of Identity: Politics and Poetics in Latin America"Transitioning from literary analysis of Latin American novels to political theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and back, Dove brilliantly performs one of the most difficult tasks of the critic: to think the 'history of the present.' Rather than engaging in blind celebrations of globalization, Dove fearlessly looks straight into the eye of the storm, deploying new vocabularies to helps us grasp contemporary precariousness, new forms of violence, and increasing inequality. In so doing, he mounts a bracing critique of the almost comedic way in which our outdated critical weapons keep firing at the wrong targets. A must read for Latinamericanists and comparatists, as well as for scholars interested in putting interdisciplinarity to work." — Moira Fradinger, author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins