Tamara Mitchell – författare

The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Tamara L. Mitchell analyzes recent (1996–2019) Mexican and Central American fiction and theorizes this emergent epoch through the lens of postnationalism, which describes the altered but still active role of the patriarchal nation-state in society and culture, as well as the way in which novelistic form inscribes and is a symptom of these changes. Within this context, Mitchell examines narrative fiction that mobilizes a postnational aesthetics to illuminate the distortionary effects of neoliberalism and state violence on modern literary and political forms. As Mexico and Central America confront this new reality, this corpus dramatizes the state’s incapacity to guarantee the security of its people and territory. At the same time, the works’ postnational aesthetics lend imaginative definition to forms of relationality, care, and storytelling that defy the individuality and exclusion fomented by emergent neoliberal logic.

The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Tamara L. Mitchell analyzes recent (1996–2019) Mexican and Central American fiction and theorizes this emergent epoch through the lens of postnationalism, which describes the altered but still active role of the patriarchal nation-state in society and culture, as well as the way in which novelistic form inscribes and is a symptom of these changes. Within this context, Mitchell examines narrative fiction that mobilizes a postnational aesthetics to illuminate the distortionary effects of neoliberalism and state violence on modern literary and political forms. As Mexico and Central America confront this new reality, this corpus dramatizes the state’s incapacity to guarantee the security of its people and territory. At the same time, the works’ postnational aesthetics lend imaginative definition to forms of relationality, care, and storytelling that defy the individuality and exclusion fomented by emergent neoliberal logic.

Cheated on...Battered by emotion...You don''t know where to turn.

You feel betrayed, devastated, embarrassed, angry, and completely heartbroken.

You ask yourself,

"How can I stop infidelity from ruining my life?"

"How do I cope with this nightmare?

You don''t realize there is a roadmap that explains what you are going through. That roadmap is Cheating in a Nutshell.

Knowledge is Power and Understanding is Liberating.

Whatever shade of infidelity you''re dealing with, it is powerfully painful - and the feelings that come with it are hardly ever simple.

Understanding your pain will change your way of thinking almost immediately.

This book is for you if:

You just learned your partner cheated on youYou have been staying with a cheating partnerYou were betrayed in a past relationship and seek a deeper understanding of your feelings

In Cheating in a Nutshell, Wayne and Tamara Mitchell explain the source of your pain.

There is a way out of this darkness, and the first step is to understand the structure of this awful experience.

"The focus is on the betrayed, not the cheater, and if you''ve been cheated on, I agree with other reviewers: This is the best book, the only one you need." - Reader Review

It''s never too late to understand why you feel as you do. Read Cheating in a Nutshell.