Literary landscapes of time : multiple temporalities and spaces in Latin American and Caribbean literatures / edited by Jobst Welge, Juliane Tauchnitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Welge, Jobst, 1969- editor.

Tauchnitz, Juliane, editor.

Series:

Latin American literatures in the world ; 15.

Latin American Literatures in the World ; v.15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

The book series "Latin American Literatures of the World" presents an innovative understanding of literatures written in Latin America and the Caribbean. Informed by current perspectives on world literary studies and cultural theory, it focuses on works that deal with the multiple global connections of Latin American literatures. This comprises determined aesthetics and forms of writing, as well as book-market-related phenomena.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

"Children, Butterflies, and Latin American Literary Landscapes." Introductional Essay

Introduction

I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields

Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning in Nineteenth-Century Spanish- and French-Language Caribbean Literatures

Dissolution of Time and Space in Memórias postumas de Brás Cubas

Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017)

II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s)

Timescapes of the Desert: Multiple Temporalities in Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão

Tropical Temporalities: Literary Landscape and Multiple Times in Alejo Carpentier's Los Pasos Perdidos

The Whims of the Climate: Landscapes of Deep Time in Juan José Saer's Las Nubes

III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes

The Landscape in Ruins

Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature

Prisons, Ruins, Bodies, and the Extension of Space and Time in Patrick Chamoiseau's Un dimanche au cachot

Whirlwinds of Sounds: Rethinking Hurricane Temporalities through Contemporary Poetry from the Lesser Antilles

Night-time Mobilities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Spectralities in the 24-hour City and the Case of Burning Night (2019).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Welge, Jobst Literary Landscapes of Time

ISBN:

3-11-076227-7

OCLC:

1369656963