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Twenty-First Century Fiction from the Southern Cone: Sketches for a New Syllabus

Twenty-First Century Fiction from the Southern Cone: Sketches for a New Syllabus. Joanna Page, University of Cambridge. Neoliberalism and Crisis. Diamela Eltit : Mano de obra (Chile, 2002) Pedro Mairal , Un año del desierto (Argentina, 2010).

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Twenty-First Century Fiction from the Southern Cone: Sketches for a New Syllabus

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  1. Twenty-First Century Fiction from the Southern Cone:Sketches for a New Syllabus Joanna Page, University of Cambridge

  2. Neoliberalism and Crisis • DiamelaEltit: Mano de obra (Chile, 2002) • Pedro Mairal, Un año del desierto (Argentina, 2010)

  3. Dictatorship and Memory: The Second Generation • FélixBruzzone, Los topos (Argentina, 2008) • Alejandro Zambra, Formas de volver a casa (Chile, 2011) • Ways of Going Home, trans. Megan McDowell (Granta, 2013) Further reading: • Laura Alcoba, La casa de los conejos (Argentina, 2006) • The Rabbit House, trans. Polly McLean(Portobello Books, 2009) • Ernesto Semán, Soy un bravo piloto de la nueva China (Argentina, 2011) • Patricio Pron, El espíritu de mis padres siguesubiendo en la lluvia (Argentina, 2011) • My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, trans. Mara Faye Lethem (Faber, 2013)

  4. FiccionesGuerrilleras • Carlos Gamerro, Un yuppie en la columna del Che Guevara (Argentina, 2011) • Federico Lorenz, Montoneroso la ballenablanca (Argentina, 2012) • Arturo Fontaine, La vidadoble (Chile, 2010) • La vidadoble: A novel, trans. Megan McDowell (Yale UP, 2013)

  5. Rewriting History’s Myths and Heroes • Washington Cucurto, 1810: La revoluciónvividapor los negros (Argentina, 2008) • Eduardo Galeano, Espejos: Unahistoriacasi universal (Uruguay, 2008) • Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, trans. Mark Fried(Nation Books, 2010)

  6. Violence and Philosophy in the 21st Century • Roberto Bolaño, Nocturno de Chile (2000) • By Night in Chile, trans. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2003) • PolaOloixarac, Las teoríassalvajes (Argentina, 2008)

  7. New Technologies, New Subjectivities • Jorge Baradit, Trinidad (Chile, 2007) • César Aira, El juego de los mundos (Argentina, 2000) • Marcelo Cohen, Casa de Ottro (Argentina, 2009)

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