Literature and ''interregnum'': globalization, war, and the crisis of sovereignty in Latin America

342 Pages·2016·1.246 MB·English

by  Dove, Patrick

LITERATURE AND “INTERREGNUM”
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Rodolphe Gasché (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo)
Martin Hägglund (Comparative Literature, Yale)
Carol Jacobs (Comparative Literature & German, Yale University)
Peggy Kamuf (French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)
David Marriott (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Steven Miller (English, University at Buffalo)
Alberto Moreiras (Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University)
Patrick O’Donnell (English, Michigan State University)
Pablo Oyarzún (Teoría del Arte, Universidad de Chile)
Scott Cutler Shershow (English, University of California, Davis)
Henry Sussman (German and Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Samuel Weber (Comparative Literature, Northwestern)
Ewa Ziarek (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo)
LITERATURE AND
“INTERREGNUM”
Globalization, War,
and the Crisis of Sovereignty
in Latin America
PATRICK DOVE
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Names: Dove, Patrick, 1967- author.
Title: Literature and interregnum : globalization, war, and the crisis of sovereignty in
Latin America / Patrick Dove.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] | Series: SUNY
series, Literature . . . in Theory | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015036593| ISBN 9781438461557 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781438461564 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Spanish American literature —20th century—History and criti-
cism. | Spanish American literature—21st century—History and criticism. |
Literature and globalization. | Sovereignty in literature. | Literature and soci-
ety—Latin America.
Classification: LCC PQ7081 .D686 2016 | DDC 860.9/980904—dc23 LC record
available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036593
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For Samuel, Theo and Reuven,
and their love of stories

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Tonalities of Literature in Post-dictatorship Argentina:
Mood and History in Post-Utopian Times 23
2. Mediatization and the Literary Neo-Avant-Garde
in Argentina 71
3. The Dis-jointures of History: Market, Virtuoso Labor,
and Natural History in Post-dictatorship Chile 121
4. Literary Contretemps: Histories of Love, Labor,
and Abandonment 167
5. Repetition or Interruption?: The Fate of Modernity
in the Time of Globalization and Global War 215
Afterword: From Ciudad Juárez to Latin America 261
Notes 271
Bibliography 307
Index 321
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book has been a long time in the making, so much so that its
initial impulses were born in what might be called a different world:
that of Southern California in late August 2001. In the wake of that
turbulent autumn the concerns and impulses that gave rise to this proj-
ect have undergone significant mutations and acquired new directions,
both in response to world events and in view of the ongoing trans-
formations that are affecting the academic spheres of Latin American
literary and cultural studies and the theoretical humanities in general.
My thinking about the guiding themes and questions in this book
has been shaped through sustained conversations with old and new
friends, including Bram Acosta, Marco Dorfsman, Moira Fradinger,
Erin Graff-Zivin, Edgar Illas, Danny James, Kate Jenckes, John Kra-
niauskas, Brett Levinson, Alberto Moreiras, Sam Steinberg, Sergio
Villalobos-Ruminott, and Gareth Williams.
At Indiana University, where the vast majority of this book was
written, I am profoundly grateful for the friendship and intellectual
comradery of many colleagues. In particular I would like to thank Anke
Birkenmaier, Michel Chaouli, Deborah Cohn, Melissa Dinverno, Ryan
Giles, Carl Good, Jeff Gould, Andrés Guzmán, Edgar Illas, Danny
James, Josh Kates, Cathy Larson, Alejandro Mejías-López, Kate Myers,
Bill Rasch, Jonathan Risner, Ben Robinson, and Steve Wagschal for
helping to make Bloomington an intellectually vibrant and rewarding
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