Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that Bolano's novels, short stories, poetry and essays ...examine to a point of exhaustion the most important aspects of Latin America's modern literary tradition. Bolano's critique of modernity as a violent historical condition is a radical mode of literary articulation. With it, the current models of criticism-world literature, the global novel, postcolonial and transatlantic studies-are undermined, while the very notions of margin and center are ultimately disolved. Oswaldo Zavala contends that Bolano deliberately dismantles the symbolic capital of the Western literary tradition by generating a counterhegemonic horizon of meaning that arises from and defines Latin American writing. The book offers innovative readings ofDistant Star,By Night in Chile,The Savage Detectives,Last Evenings on Earthand2666, among other works. It ultimately demonstrates that Bolano transcends the neoliberal dream of a global consciousness by revealing the discontinuous, contingent and savage reality of our pernicious modernity. Bolano forges the most urgent critique of 21st century Latin American and Western literature alike.
Intersecando teoría postcolonial y gender studies, este volumen se encarga de fundar un territorio imaginario llamado ‘Queer américa', donde la ‘naturaleza' es estudiado montaje, las fronteras son ...inciertasy las identidades ambiguas. Los cuerpos diferentes y diversamente orientados que deambulan por estas páginas son, sobre todo, ‘cuerpos locales', emblemáticos de una manera inédita de desglosar el lema delo local y ‘llevar' el estigma periférico: cuerpos libertariamente desconfinadoss in llegar a ser rendidos al discurso de la transitividad universal.
Detectando un distintivo ‘giro queer' en los que haceres literarios hispanoamericanos a partir de los años 90 del pasado siglo, la investigación se concentra en las borrosas ‘visiones de Latinoamérica' que, después de los mitos y el desencanto, empiezan a salir de los talleres de tres autorías fuertes del canon chileno: Pedro Lemebel, Diamela Eltit y Roberto Bolaño, los responsables de una versión productivamente torcida del ‘viejo y embustero cuento' de la identidad hispanoamericana, los pioneros de un inédito lugar de la cultura en elque muchos escritores del nuevo milenio echarán raíces. Texto de la editorial
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.
En un proceso histórico que abarca gran parte del siglo XIX y al menos la primera mitad del XX, el caudillismo, las comunidades indígenas y las masas urbanas, fueron imaginados por las élites como un ...resabio de la colonia que la época republicana debía trascender. Este libro analiza dicho proceso y su presencia en la cultura y la literatura. Texto de la editorial
The study of cross-cutting characters in Roberto Bolano's narrative is essential when examining the existing critical bibliography on the Chilean author. Many analyses focus on individual characters ...or specific works, overlooking the cohesive nature of Bolano's fictional universe. This article aims to present a comprehensive history of the interconnected characters in Bolano' s texts, exploring their evolution and the interplay between the plots of his stories and novels. By examining the complete range of recurring characters, the article uncovers multiple cross-cutting character arcs that span across several of Bolano's works. While Bolano's recognition grew after receiving the Romulo Gallegos Prize in 1998, academic interest in his works further intensified with subsequent publications, including monographs, theses and critical studies. Notable contributions include works that extensively analyse various aspects of Bolano's writing but fall short of a comprehensive study of his cross-cutting characters. This article fills that gap by exploring the appearances and transformations of characters such as Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, examining instances of character rewriting, and delving into the portrayal of characters in different works. By offering a holistic and intertextual understanding of Bolano's narrative, this study contributes to the critical analysis of his literary oeuvre.
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Este texto abordará la figura de la mujer en dos novelas fundamentales de Roberto Bolaño: Los detectives salvajes (1998) y 2666 (2004). En la primera, el objetivo es corroborar la existencia de una ...elaboración sagrada de la mujer. A este respecto vale considerar la figura de Cesárea Tinajero, no solo como el mito de la artista de vanguardia, sino como la vanguardia misma. En cuanto a 2666¹, específicamente en “La parte de los crímenes”, el objetivo es dar cuenta de un giro revelador en la perspectiva de Bolaño respecto de la mujer, que deja de ser símbolo literario para transformarse en sujeta política; acusando, de tal manera, una problemática central para el feminismo, la violencia de género.
This text will address the figure of women in two fundamental novels by Roberto Bolaño: Los detectives salvajes (The savage detectives) (1998) and 2666 (2004). In the first, the aim is to corroborate the existence of a sacred elaboration of women. In this regard, it is worth considering the figure of Cesárea Tinajero not only as the myth of the avant-garde artist, but as the avant-garde itself. In regard to 2666, specifically in “La parte de los crímenes”, the aim is to account for a revealing twist in Bolaño’s perspective regarding women, who stop being a literary symbol to become a political subject; highlighting in such a way, a central issue for feminism, gender violence.
Al trazar los vínculos intertextuales entre A Lonely Rage, la autobiografía de Bobby Seale, y 2666, la novela de Roberto Bolaño, este artículo propone que la tercera parte de la obra de Bolaño ensaya ...el acto de escribir la vejez del Pantera Negra como forma de pensar la futuridad de los ideales políticos de los movimientos anticoloniales y tercermundistas de los años sesenta. Se sostendrá que la representación de Seale mediante el personaje de Barry Seaman emplaza en la novela un imaginario oceánico arraigado en la memoria de la violencia de la trata trasatlántica de esclavos. Este artículo indaga en un sitio textual poco estudiado de 2666 para señalar la influencia de las tradiciones políticas e intelectuales del internacionalismo negro sobre uno de los autores más conocidos de América Latina.
By tracing the intertextual links between Bobby Seale’s autobiography A Lonely Rage and Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, this article proposes that the third part of Bolaño’s text experiments with the act of writing the Black Panther’s old age as a means of thinking the futurity of the political ideals of 1960s anticolonial and Third Worldist movements. I demonstrate that the representation of Seale via the character of Barry Seaman puts into place within the novel an oceanic imaginary grounded in the memory of the violence of the transatlantic slave trade. This article delves into an understudied textual site in 2666 to indicate the influence of the political and intellectual traditions of black internationalism on one of Latin America’s most well-known authors.
Normal Jews? Stavans, Ilan
Latin American Research Review,
09/2022, Letnik:
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Journal Article, Book Review
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This essay reviews the following works:
Migrations: Poem, 1976–2020.
By Gloria Gervitz. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer. New York: New York Review Books, 2021. Pp. 304. $20.00 paperback. ...ISBN: 9781681375700.
Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture.
By Mariusz Kałczewiak. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 320. $49.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780817320393.
The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation.
By Amy K. Kaminsky. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. Pp. xviii + 262. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781438483290.
Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933–1965.
By Robert Kelz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 372. $25.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781501739866.
Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation.
By Claudio Lomnitz. New York: Other Press, 2021. Pp. 464. $27.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781635420708.
Nuestra América: Utopía y persistencia de una familia judía.
By Claudio Lomnitz. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018. Pp. 336. $14.00 paperback. ISBN: 9786071660084.
Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film.
By Stephanie M. Pridgeon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 208. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781487508142.
Armed Jews in the Americas.
Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2021. Pp. 264. $142.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9789004462533.
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century.
By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Pp. vi + 336. $28.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780374185428.
La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff.
By Mónica Szurmuk. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana Editorial, 2018. Pp. 431. $23.54 paperback. ISBN: 9789500761482.
Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Rethinking
Argentinidad
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By Mirna Vohnsen. Suffolk: Tamesis Books, 2019. Pp. 205. $99.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781855663374.
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The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño's "The Part about the Crimes", the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building ...on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call "symbolic unintelligibility", using it to respond to literary tradition and to the political conflicts of our times.
