The Generation of '72: Latin America's Forced Global Citizens

Authors

  • Brantley Nicholson University of Richmond
  • Sophia A McClennen Penn State University

Keywords:

Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American literature, globalization, postmodernism, generation of '72

Abstract

This collection aims to both affirm and move-beyond the primary readings presented by Goic, Shaw, and Avelar.  It presents an attempt to update theoretical approaches to the Generation of ’72 and to explore how its collective aesthetics holds up, as dictatorships give way to neoliberal democracies.  The list of authors presented here is not meant to be a rigid schematic, but rather a jumping off point.  Many authors have come and gone from this volume’s short list.  Our goal is not to define, canonize, and exclude but, along with the greatly talented scholars that have agreed to contribute to this collection, to add to the growing conversation on contemporary Latin American letters.  With that in mind, the authors that comprise the Generation of ’72 and receive criticism in this collection consist of Luisa Valenzuela (1938), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Ricardo Piglia (1941), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Ariel Dorfman (1942), Fernando Vallejo (1942), Osvaldo Soriano (1943), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Diamela Eltit (1949), and César Aira (1949).

Author Biographies

Brantley Nicholson, University of Richmond

Brantley Nicholson es profesor visitante de la facultad de Estudios Latinoamericanos e Ibéricos en la Universidad de Richmond. Su trabajo trata los nexos entre la cultura latinoamericana, la globalización y la ética. Ha publicado artículos en revistas como Studies in Social and Political Thought, Chasqui: Una revista de literatura latinoamericana y Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, entre otras. El presente estudio nace de un capitulo de la tesis doctoral que realizó en la Universidad de Duke entre 2007 y 2011, y sus proyectos actuales incluyen colecciones editadas sobre la ciudanía global y Fernando Vallejo y un monografía sobre la Ilustración y el idealismo estético en América Latina.

Sophia A McClennen, Penn State University

Sophia A. McClennen es profesora de los Estudios Internacionales y Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Pennsylvania State, University Park, donde dirige el Centro de Estudios Globales. Sus libros más recientes incluyen Colbert's America: Satire and Democracy (Palgrave 2012) y Neoliberalism, Terrorism, Education (Paradigm 2012) que coescribió con Jeffrey Di Leo, Henry Giroux y Ken Saltman. Actualmente, está preparando un estudio sobre el cine latinoamericano y la globalización
The Generation of '72: The Forced Global Citizens of Latin America

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Published

2012-10-15

How to Cite

Nicholson, B., & McClennen, S. A. (2012). The Generation of ’72: Latin America’s Forced Global Citizens. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 10(1), 1–17. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/593

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2012): Fall 2012

Section

Dossier: Poesía e imagen

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