Beyond Bolaño Quotes

“The transnational availability of literary themes related to Nazism is a peculiar sign of cultural globalization. After”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

“Benjamin believed that part of the duty of the critical historian was to put in relation to each other moments in the past that hold the promise of emancipation, such as the Parisian revolts of 1830 and 1848, along with the Commune of 1871. While”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

“this fascinating tension between specificity and generality makes the transnational phenomenon of “literary Nazism” a key site for examining the relationship between globalization and literature, especially from a Latin American perspective, for the region has an interestingly ambiguous role with regard to certain totalizing accounts that involve Nazism. On”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

“Nazism as a function of Sarmiento’s dichotomy of civilización y barbarie, or of revising criollismo after fascism; in short, of renegotiating literary history on a world scale as our notions of time, space, and cultural belonging find themselves in flux.”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel