Belonging Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature

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dc.contributor.authorBilodeau, Annik
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T19:45:10Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T19:45:10Z
dc.date.copyright2021
dc.date.issued2021-01
dc.description.abstractThe first book to trace the evolution of political cosmopolitanism in Latin American literature through a generational lens, presenting a new blended theoretical framework. Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern political cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism in Latin America has historically been associated with colonialism. In the mid-twentieth-century, authors who presented cosmopolitan narratives were harshly criticized by their nationalist peers. However, with the intensification of cultural globalization Spanish American authors have redefined cosmopolitanism, rejecting a worldview that relies on the creation of an other for the definition of the self. Instead, this new generation has both embraced and challenged global citizenship, redefining concepts to address human rights, identity, migration, belonging, and more. Taking the work of Elena Poniatowka, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Volpi as examples, this book presents innovative scholarship across literary traditions. It shows how Spanish-American authors offer nuanced understandings of national and global affiliations, and identities and untangles the strings of cosmopolitan thought and activism from those of nationalist criticism.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBilodeau, A. (2021). Belonging Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literature. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, AB. pp. 1-267.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781773851600
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/113029
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38597
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Pressen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Waterlooen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLatin American and Caribbean series ; no. 16en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.subjectLatin Americaen_US
dc.subjectLiterary Criticismen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolitanism Studiesen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleBelonging Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitan Affiliations in Contemporary Spanish American Literatureen_US
dc.typebooken_US
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