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Jeffrey Browitt

Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st Century, Tapa dura

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Cicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aesthetic responses to a difficult social, political and economic landscape dominated by neoliberal adjustment, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle to establish fully democratic societies. Herein is a mix of male and female authors spread across five Central American countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Thematic unity is provided by nomadism, migration and the inability to leave behind a violent past of armed conflict that bleeds into the present scars that wont heal. An atmosphere of survival, exhaustion, dissipation and decay (in both the physical and moral sense) dominates, but also rays of hope: the writers testify to the triumph of the spirit as much as to its destruction. This vibrant literature speaks of existential crisis in a context of social precarity and lack of opportunity as people dis-embedded by civ

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Formato Tapa dura
Número de Páginas 176
Lenguaje Inglés
Editorial Liverpool University Press
Fecha de Publicación 2019-11-01
Dimensiones 9.09" x 6.24" x 0.55" pulgadas
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Jeffrey Browitt is associate professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books on Latin American literary and cultural studies (detailed on the press website). Cicatrices is a companion volume to Contemporary Central American Fiction: Gender, Subjectivity and Affect (2017) Browitt delivers a complex and impassioned reading of texts that should be of outmost interest to students and critics of Central American literature (Magdalena Perkowska, Professor Spanish and Latin American Studies, Graduate Center, Hunter College CUNY).

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