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{"id":7777603387481,"title":"Crónica de un Amor Terrible — Celis","handle":"cronica-de-un-amor-terrible-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUna fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDurante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","published_at":"2024-08-07T17:02:16-04:00","created_at":"2024-08-07T17:02:16-04:00","vendor":"Penguin Random House","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Spanish Language"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41831147733081,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF413-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crónica de un Amor Terrible — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":255,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789585404885","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cronica de un amor terrible by Nadia Celis","id":25561893601369,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf413-celis-cronica.jpg?v=1723064437","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUna fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDurante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde reposan los archivos personales de Gabriel García Márquez, Nadia Celis dio con un importante hallazgo: un manuscrito inédito de Crónica de una muerte anunciada que contiene un insólito epílogo. El descubrimiento detonó en la escritora el impulso por desentrañar los efectos que la célebre novela del Premio Nobel tuvo y sigue teniendo no solo en los personajes reales que inspiraron aquella historia, sino también en sus miles de lectoras y lectores. Este libro, su extraordinario relato de la investigación, es una travesía apasionante que rebasa los límites de la ficción y de la realidad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing research through the places, characters, and real events that inspired one of the best-known novels by Gabriel García Márquez:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring a visit to the Harry Ransom Center, where Gabriel García Márquez’ personal archive is kept, Nadia Cleis came across an important find: an unpublished manuscript of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e containing a rare epilogue. The find detonated in the writer the impulse to unravel the effects the famous novel by the Nobel Prize winner had and still has, not only in the real-life people who inspired the story, but in thousands of readers. This book, an extraordinary account of her research, is a passionate journey that goes beyond the limits of reality and fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e"}

{"id":7396434903129,"title":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","handle":"la-rebelion-de-las-ninas-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3250,"price_min":3250,"price_max":3250,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3250,"compare_at_price_min":3250,"compare_at_price_max":3250,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590081359961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF412-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3250,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3250,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9788484898368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Rebelion de las ninas by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333103464537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396434018393,"title":"Lección Errante — Celis","handle":"leccion-errante-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":2600,"price_min":2600,"price_max":2600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2600,"compare_at_price_min":2600,"compare_at_price_max":2600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590080180313,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF411-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Lección Errante — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2600,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789945455687","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Leccion errante by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333099368537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396432969817,"title":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","handle":"muerte-de-utopia-carolyn-wolfenzon-niego","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590077853785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF410-Wolfenzon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789972515552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of book Muerte de Utopia by Carolyn Wolfenzon","id":24333093830745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}