Latin American Literature at the Millennium

CECILY RAYNOR is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies and digital humanities at McGill University in Montreal.

"Local Lives, Global Spaces outlines the relationship between globalization and literature in Latin America, offering a key contribution to an exciting, emerging field. Critics and scholars working in the fields of Spanish American and Brazilian literature, narrative theory, and contemporary fiction will also benefit from this book."— Catalina Quesada-Gómez, co-editor of Cámara de eco. Homenaje a Severo Sarduy"This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Latin American fiction."— Luso-Brazilian Review"Dr. Raynor's book approaches globalization from an unexpected and little explored angle. Through detailed textual analysis, careful contextualization of literary works, and perspicacious dialogue with critical works, Dr. Raynor shows how Latin American literature questions entrenched (though not immutable) dynamics of power and, thereby proposes other ways of understanding not only the region's cultural production, but also how we understand the role that world literature plays in interrogating relations of political and cultural power."— Leila Lehnen, author of Citizenship and Crises in Contemporary Brazilian Literature"A major contribution to the study of the aesthetics and material practices of literature in Latin America today. Engaging with the Hispanophone and the Lusophone world, Raynor provides a useful account of questions of space, mobility and globalization. Compelling in its new readings of Latin American authors that have redefined literary writing in Spanish and Portuguese: Bolaño, Luiselli, Ruffato, Noll, among others."— Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question"Specialists on the Latin American novel and those with an interest in Brazilian literature constitute the primary audience for this book."— Hispania"Uneven experiences of globalization in Spanish America and Brazil—as captured in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century cultural production—are the focus of Latin American Literature at the Millennium. With rich documentation and textured close readings, Raynor breathes new life into discussions on migration, acceleration, spaciality and the multitude. Through its chapters, the travails of local spaces in an integrated world come to bear on the literary historiography of the region."— Héctor Hoyos, author of Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

• Introduction: Patterning the Local within the Global1 Migration Chronotopes: Imagining Time and Space in Two Brazilian Novels2 Speed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and Its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola3 Ambivalent Spaces: Allegories of Ruin in Bernardo Carvalho's Teatro and Gilberto Noll's Harmada4 Another City and Another Life: Writing Multitudes in Valeria Luiselli's Los ingrávidosConclusion: Ser de un intervalAppendix: Testing Regionalism, Migrant Narratives, and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz RuffatoAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex