The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face of Globalization

This groundbreaking study explores how modern Colombian literature reflects the country's tumultuous entrance into globalization, marking its cultural and literary manifestations as threefold. It examines García Márquez's retreat to rural romanticism, the country's violent end to the twentieth century, and the contemporary period of a new major author creating "literature of national reconstitution."

Format: Hardback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 22 May 2022
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.

This groundbreaking study delves into the profound impact of modern Colombian literature, spanning from the legendary Gabriel García Márquez to the emerging Juan Gabriel Vásquez, on the turbulent journey of globalization. As these literary giants, one canonical and the other emergent, bookend Colombia's ascent and decline on the global stage, the period in between witnesses an inordinate amount of violence, marking a transformative era in the evolution of Colombian urban novels. This book categorizes Colombia's cultural and literary manifestations as threefold, exploring García Márquez's retreat to rural romanticism, which paradoxically propelled him to global literary fame; the country's turbulent end to the twentieth century, marked by the dominance of narcotics as its largest economic export; and the contemporary era, witnessing the emergence of a new major author who has crafted a "literature of national reconstitution." Drawing inspiration from the Regeneration movement and extending into the early twenty-first century, this book analyzes the far-reaching cultural implications of Colombia's relationship with the broader world.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684483662