The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times

In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicol?s Campisi combines the fields of post-dictatorship studies and environmental humanities to analyze Latin American cultural production in the neoliberal age. Each chapter pairs two authors from different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean who create a common vocabulary in which to frame the various crises of the region's present and recent past, such as climate change, forced migration, the collapse of state institutions, and the afterlives of slavery. By situating his argument at the intersection of ecocritical and environmental humanities, affect studies, and the politics of memory and postmemory, Campisi presents new comparative methods to show how Latin America's neoliberal crisis prompted significant changes in how the novel as a form imagines a different future.

Author: Nicol?s Campisi
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 12/17/2024
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.39w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780822948391