Postnational Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Literature

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Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by Jose Marti, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Junot Diaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cecilia Vicuna, Jorge Luis Borges, and other writers. They discuss how expanding worldviews have impacted the way these authors write and how they are read today. Whether analyzing the increasingly popular character of the voluntary exile, the theme of masculinity in This Is How You Lose Her, or the multilingual nature of the Spanish language itself, they show how contemporary Hispanic writers and critics are engaging in cross-cultural literary conversations.

Drawing from a range of fields including postcolonial, Latino, gender, exile, and transatlantic studies, these essays help characterize a new world literature that reflects changing understandings of memory, belonging, and identity.