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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 863/.709355
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 1773851594 9781773851617
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- PQ6073.C67
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- B55 2020eb
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- 1 electronic text (ix, 254 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00241678 (OCoLC)1232278819 (CaOOCEL)480783
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Series Page 3
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 12
- Spanish America against the World 19
- Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitan Reading 27
- Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Spanish American Literature 34
- 1 | Narrating Transculturation: Elena Poniatowska’s La “Flor de Lis” 38
- A Transcultural Education 46
- Conclusion 71
- 2 | Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Global Era in the Fictions of Mario Vargas Llosa 74
- A Literary Evolution Defined by Tensions 76
- Politics and Utopia 78
- The Way to (Liberal) Rooted Cosmopolitanism 81
- Liberal Cosmopolitanism 83
- Characters Making History 87
- Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism in El Paraíso enla otra esquina 90
- The Fate of the Cosmopolitan Patriot in El sueño delcelta 110
- Conclusion 138
- 3 | Cosmopolitanism at the End of History in the Fictions of Jorge Volpi 148
- “Mi biblioteca es mi patria” 151
- The Crack 151
- The End of National Narrative 154
- Rejecting Ideological realismo mágico 161
- The Global Novel 166
- El fin de la locura: Cosmopolitanism and the Global Intellectual 168
- No será la Tierra: The Fate of Cosmopolitanism in the Neo-liberal World Order 193
- Conclusion 209
- Conclusion 220
- Notes 230
- INTRODUCTION 230
- CHAPTER 1 232
- CHAPTER 2 234
- CHAPTER 3 239
- Works Consulted 244
- Index 258
- Back Cover 266
