Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Key Developments
Chapter 1. Formal and Thematic Tendencies in Central American Literature: From Past to Present
Dante Liano (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Chapter 2. Central American Narrativity and the Coloniality of Power: Is Post-War Literature New?
Arturo Arias (University of California, Merced, CA, United States of America)
Chapter 3. Transnational Narratives of Origin, Affiliation and Canon in the Nicaraguan Post-Revolution: On Gioconda Belli’s El Infinito en la Palma de la Mano
Leonel Delgado Aburto (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Chapter 4. Transmutation in Contemporary Central American Testimony: From Epic to Parody?
Werner Mackenbach (Universität Potsdam, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
Chapter 5. Contemporary Maya Poetry and the Question of Modernity: Xib’alb’a as an Allegory of Globalization
Emilio del Valle Escalante (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America)
II. Violence, Crime, Memory, Testimony and Trauma
Chapter 6. Post-National Post-Identities: Transformations in Post-War Central American Literary Production
Arturo Arias (University of California, Merced, CA, United States of America)
Chapter 7. Absolute Destitution in the Narrative of Jorge Medina García
Héctor M. Leyva (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Honduras)
Chapter 8. Disillusion and the Breakdown of Binary Morality: Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Critique of El Salvador’s Militant Left in La diáspora
James Knight (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Chapter 9. ¿Cómo Expresar Una Realidad Grosera, Cruda, Fea?: Violence, Testimony and Aesthetics in Salvadoran Post-Civil War Literature
Astvaldur Astvaldsson (University Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Chapter 10. Reconstructing the Plot of History: The Latest Proposal for the Historical Novel by Castellanos Moya
Ricardo Roque-Baldovinos (Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador)
Chapter 11. Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Crime and Trauma in Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s El Material Humano
Yansi Pérez (Carleton College, MN, United States of America)
III. Gender, Sexuality and Race
Chapter 12. Violence and Sexuality in the Post-War Novel in Central America
Karen Poe (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
Chapter 13. Other Societies, Other Men: Masculinities in Recent Central American Narrative
Uriel Quesada (Loyola University New Orleans, LA, United States of America)
Chapter 14. Abject Guerrilleras: Re-defining the ‘Woman Warrior’ in Post-War Central America
Yajaira M. Padilla (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America)
Index
The target audience for is the academic community, including both under- and postgraduate students in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Given that some of the texts studied are available in English translations, interest from readers and students in the field of World Literature is also anticipated.
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