Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018: Volume 5

Description

How do we address the idea of the literary now at the end of the second decade in the 21st century? Many traditional categories obscure or overlook significant contemporary forms of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period. Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. Topics point to fresh, intersectional understandings of cultural practice, while keeping in mind the ongoing stakes in a struggle over material and intangible cultural and political borders that are being reinforced in formidable ways.

Monica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She has published extensively on Latin American and Jewish Literature, gender, cultural studies, and memory. Her most recent books include The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature (with Ileana Rodriguez) and La vocacion desmesurada: Una biografia de Alberto Gerchunoff. Debra A. Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She specializes in contemporary narrative and performance from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, comparative border studies, and cultural theory. Her most recent books include South of the Future: Speculative Biotechnologies and Care Markets in South Asia and Latin America (with Anindita Banerjee) and The Scholar as Human (with Anna Sims Bartel).