Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez (Editor)

1. The Spatial Turn and Twenty-First Century Latin American Fiction (José Eduardo González).- 2. Beyond the Ruins of the Organized Urban Experiences through the Metro in Contemporary Mexican Literature (Liesbeth François).- 3. Spectral Haunting in the Latin American City (Marta Sierra).- 4. A Tale of Three Cities. Urban Space in the Crack Novels (1995-97) (Tomás Regalado López).- 5. The Night That Repeats Social Dystopia in Managua, Salsa City (¡Devórame otra vez!) , by Franz Galich (Magdalena Perkowska).- 6. Urban Debris and Networking Imperialism in Un Arte de hacer ruinas by Antonio José Ponte (Eduard Arriaga).- 7. Place Making in the Solitude of the Valeria Luiselli's Los ingrávidos (Cecily Raynor).- 8. Dislocated Subjects in the Global Santiago Gamboa's Hotel Pekín (Camilo A. Malagón).- 9. Roberto Bolaño's Urban The City as Metaphor for the Silent Universe (Juan Pablo Melo).- 10. The Tourist Aesthetic and Empire in Rodrigo Fresán's Mantra and Jardines de Kensington (Timothy R. Robbins).

232 pages, Paperback

Published July 5, 2018