Transnational Genealogies and Post-national Literary Canons

  • Ty West University of Notre Dame
Keywords Mexico, United States, Carlos Fuentes, Thomas Pynchon, Transnational narrative
Keywords Mexico, United States, Carlos Fuentes, Thomas Pynchon, Transnational narrative

Abstract

Review of Pedro García Caro's After the Nation. Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014).

Author Biography

Ty West, University of Notre Dame

Ty West specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to Latin American literature and culture with emphasis on Mexico and the long nineteenth century. His primary research interests include travel literature and the representation of subjects in transit, obstacles to nation-building and alternative nationalisms, nineteenth-century print culture, and intellectual history. He has taught all levels of Spanish language, introductory courses on Hispanic literature, and Spanish textual analysis.

Published
2015-01-15
Section
Reviews: Poetry & Narrative