Book contents
- Roberto Bolaño in Context
- Roberto Bolaño in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Part I Geographical, Social, and Historical Contexts
- Part II Shaping Events and Literary History
- Part III Genres, Discourses, Media
- Part IV Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics
- Chapter 23 The Abomination of Literature
- Chapter 24 Religion and Politics
- Chapter 25 Gender and Sexuality
- Chapter 26 Race and Ethnicity
- Chapter 27 Trauma and Collective Memory
- Chapter 28 Fictions of the Avant-Gardes
- Chapter 29 Love and Friendship
- Chapter 30 World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Legacies
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 30 - World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Legacies
from Part IV - Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2022
- Roberto Bolaño in Context
- Roberto Bolaño in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Part I Geographical, Social, and Historical Contexts
- Part II Shaping Events and Literary History
- Part III Genres, Discourses, Media
- Part IV Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics
- Chapter 23 The Abomination of Literature
- Chapter 24 Religion and Politics
- Chapter 25 Gender and Sexuality
- Chapter 26 Race and Ethnicity
- Chapter 27 Trauma and Collective Memory
- Chapter 28 Fictions of the Avant-Gardes
- Chapter 29 Love and Friendship
- Chapter 30 World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Legacies
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Tracing the contours of the internationalization of Roberto Bolaño’s writing across various Asian and African locales, the volume’s concluding essay explores the question of the limits of Bolaño’s world-making imagination when confronted with contexts, translations, and referents beyond Europe and the Americas. Surveying a broad swath of Eastern Hemisphere Bolañiana, it explores to what degree and in what ways we may “extend the eventfulness of literature” (Whitehead) while accounting for the de facto Western-centrism of the Chilean author. Through a consideration of key passages, selected translations, and reception case-studies, the essay shows how Bolaño’s bodily cosmopolitics continues to produce contradiction and spark collaboration as it disseminates among a younger, transnational, literary intelligentsia.
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- Roberto Bolaño In Context , pp. 333 - 346Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023