书目名称 | Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature |
编辑 | José Eduardo González,Timothy R. Robbins |
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概述 | Interrogates connections between transformation of urban space in the last three decades and the new modes of writing fiction in Latin America.Assesses how global and transnational components are inco |
丛书名称 | Hispanic Urban Studies |
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描述 | .This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.. |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Latin American Urban Studies; Twenty-First Century Latin American Literature; Post-Neoliberal Latin Am |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92438-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06430-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-92438-0Series ISSN 2662-5830 Series E-ISSN 2662-5849 |
issn_series | 2662-5830 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |