World Literature From the Margins

Authors

  • Ben A. Heller University of Notre Dame

Keywords:

Latin American narrative after 1989, globalization, capitalism, narconarratives, nazi literature, the disappearance of distance, world literature

Abstract

Review of Hoyos, Héctor. Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 2015.

Author Biography

Ben A. Heller, University of Notre Dame

Heller focuses on modern Spanish American and Caribbean literatures, particularly poetry, representations of nature and environmental criticism, and translation. He is the author of Assimilation, Generation, Resurrection: Contrapuntal Readings in the Poetry of José Lezama Lima (Bucknell University Press, 1997), co-editor with Elzbieta Sklodowska of Roberto Fernández Retamar y los estudios latinoamericanos (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000), and contributing author to Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (Ed. John Garganigo, Prentice Hall, 1997, 2002). He has also edited the translation, Running Back Through the Rain/Corriendo bajo la lluvia: Selected poems, 1982-1998, by Chilean poet, Raúl Barrientos (Swan Isle Press, 2002, trans. Ben A. Heller and Christopher Maurer). Heller is also Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Published

2016-10-24

How to Cite

Heller, B. A. (2016). World Literature From the Margins. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 14(1), 346–351. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1593

Issue

Section

Reviews: Poetry & Narrative