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Author:   Mabel Moraña ,  Stephanie Kirk
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN:  

9780826506696

ISBN 10:   0826506690
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 | Yuri Herrera: A Distilled and Elliptical Art Children’s Stories: Preparing Readers Talud and Other Stories: Telling the Tale Diez planetas: The Science of Fiction Testimonial Virtuosity in El Incendio de la mina El Bordo Microcosms Human Bodies versus Legal Bodies Trabajos del Reino: First as Tragedy, then as Farce Tragedy, Myth, Fable, and Farce Axes and Paradigms What’s in a Name? The Word, a Glimmer The Corrido as Social Text Courtly Theater: Dialogic Scenes Seales que Precederán al Fin del Mundo: A Voyage into Silence Journey as Paradigm Word, Language, Time, Writing: Symbolic Displacements Becomings Tradition/Modernity and the Function of Myth “We, the Barbarians”: From Enunciated to Enunciation La Transmigración de los Cuerpos: “Symbolic Exchange and Death” Mediation and Mandate El Alfaqueque and “The Accursed Share” Social Space and the Place of Death Body as Commodity Community/Immunity Chapter 2 | Fernanda Melchor: Necro-Aesthetics and the “Truth of the Body” (Thankfully) This Is Not Miami Chronicle, Border Narrative, and the Villa Rica of la Vera Cruz Regional Identities: Heterogeneity and Consistency Lights, Fire, and Shadows “Youth, Divine Treasure” in Falsa Liebre The Devastation of Society Mapping Subjectivity Perversion, Excess, and Gender Temporada de Huracanes or the Whirlwind of Language The Problem with Truth The Black Hole of a Bruja Patriarchy and Witchcraft Between Private and Public Life: Secrets and Gossip (Anti)Modernity and Community in La Matosa Chapter 3 | Valeria Luiselli: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Displacements, Dispositifs, and Gestures Papeles Falsos: The Exoskeleton and the Seeing Eye The Map and the Hole Liminality and Name Dropping Los Ingrávidos: Owen and I (or Vice Versa?) The Metaphysics of Presence and the Absence of the Self Mobility and Fixity Fabricating the Model: Translation and Simulacrum The Irritating Historia de mis Dientes Collectionism and the Aura of the Object The Auction House as Negotiation of Meaning Los Niños Perdidos (Un Ensayo en Cuarenta Preguntas) The Migrant’s Via Crucis and the Theater of Belonging Microhistory and Literature Lost Children Archive Word and Silence; Body and Specter Experience, Archive, and Narration Border Semiotics and Autofiction Luiselli’s Use of Children Elegiac Discourse Notes

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Mabel Moraña is a professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. Stephanie Kirk is a translator and professor of Hispanic studies at Washington University in St. Louis, working on Latin American literature and translation studies.

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