In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicolás 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.
| ISBN: | 9780822948391 |
| Publication date: | 17th December 2024 |
| Author: | Nicolás Campisi |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Series: | Illuminations |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism General Fiction |
In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicolás 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.
The Return of the Contemporary features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, General Fiction
The Return of the Contemporary is available in Hardback
The Return of the Contemporary was written by Nicolás Campisi and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
The Return of the Contemporary has 328 pages
Yes it is part of Illuminations series
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