Mora-Ballesteros Ciudades y mundos posibles

Distopía y estados de control en la novela hispanoamericana contemporánea
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-139058-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Spanisch, 193 Seiten

A critical examination of Latin American urban novels from the 2000s highlights a growing trend to view the present and depict the future in a negative and destructive light. This book studies 10 fictions that bring together transgressive, violent, prospective, and sociopolitical aesthetics: (2001), by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala); (2003), by Héctor Abad (Colombia); (2003), by Santiago Gamboa (Colombia); (2004), by Horacio Castellanos (Honduras); (2006), by Ana Torres (Venezuela); (2006), by Gabriel Jiménez (Venezuela); (2007), by Héctor Bujanda (Venezuela); (2008), by Jorge Galán (El Salvador); (2008), by Sergio Ramírez (Nicaragua), and 2008), by Gustavo Valle (Venezuela). The analysis of the corpus allows us to identify the thematic evolution of the violent city, the infernal city, the dystopian city, the post-revolutionary city and the algorithmic city, as well as their corresponding forms and writing strategies, which could constitute the articulation of some possible worlds.

Zielgruppe

Academics (literary and cultural studies, Latin American studies)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mora-Ballesteros, Luis

Über Autor(innen)

Luis Mora-Ballesteros es Profesor Asistente de español y Literatura Latinoamericana de la Academia Naval de los Estados Unidos (USNA). Su campo de investigación es la ficción distópica y las representaciones urbanas en la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo xxi. Es autor del volumen (2022), coeditor de : (2021), de (2023), y coautor del (2016). De su trabajo creativo destacan las novelas (2020), (2022), y (2024). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-9783.

Luis Mora-Ballesteros is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). His field of research is dystopian fiction and urban representations in 21st-century Hispanic American literature. He is the author of the books (2022), co-editor of (2021), (2023), and co-author of the (2016). His creative work includes the novels (2022), and Border Diptych (2024). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-9783.