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OverviewHow are contemporary authors reimagining the idea of 'Ecuador' following the worst financial crisis in the nation's history, and how do countries on the periphery of the global literary market challenge and enrich World Literature? Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian government suspended all banking operations and froze all bank accounts in the country for a period of five days. This episode, the Feriado Bancario, represents the peak of the worst financial crisis in the nation's history and one which had far-reaching and long-last effects on society, politics, the economy, and cultural production. The very idea of 'Ecuador' was transformed, as Ecuador became a country marked by constant interaction with the world beyond its borders. This book explores how contemporary Ecuadorian authors are reimagining the nation following the Feriado Bancario. Starting from a rereading of Ecuador's national novel, Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo (1930), which saw the nation as rooted in the land, the book examines post-crisis fiction which offers an image of Ecuador as a transnational space. It posits that these novels - Eliecer Cardenas' El oscuro final del Porvenir (2000), Leonardo Valencia's Kazbek (2008), Carlos Arcos' Memorias de Andres Chiliquinga (2013), and Gabriela Aleman's Humo (2017) - both reflect and explain the new reality of Ecuador as a nation that can no longer be defined by its territory. At the same time, the book uses the Ecuadorian case to challenge the conceptualisation of Latin American literature as 'post-national' and to show how countries on the periphery of the global literary market can, from the very fact of their minoritarian position, enrich and better define World Literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Luis A. Medina CordovaPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: Tamesis Books Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781855663589ISBN 10: 1855663589 Pages: 203 Publication Date: 22 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction I: Land, History, Nation II: Crisis, Fiction, Transformation III: Reimagining Ecuador Transnationally IV: Latin America, Ecuador, the World Conclusion BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationLUIS A. MEDINA CORDOVA is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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