Name: We, the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century
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Author: Moraña, Mabel ; Kirk, Stephanie
ISBN: 9780826506696

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We, the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mabel Moraña

Translated by

Stephanie Kirk

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Language

English

Pages

408

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780826506696

Synopsis "We, the Barbarians: Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century"

"We, the Barbarians" embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in 2021, this work is divided into three parts, one for each author's narrative production. The book analyzes all of the literary works published by Herrera, Melchor, and Luiselli from the beginning of their writing careers until 2021, allowing for a diachronic interpretation of their respective narrative projects as well as for comparative approaches to their aesthetic and ideological contours. Characterized by the fragmentation of civil society and the decomposition of the myths that accompanied the consolidation of the modern nation, Mexican visual and literary arts have explored a myriad of representational avenues to approach the phenomena of violence, institutional decay, and political instability. The critical and theoretical approaches in "We, the Barbarians" explore a variety of alternative symbolic representations of topics such as nationalism, community, and affect in times impacted by systemic violence, precariousness, and radical inequality. Moraña perceives the negotiations between regional/local imaginaries and global scenarios characterized by the devaluation and resignification of life, both at individual and collective levels. Though it uses three authors as its focus, this book seeks to more broadly theorize the question of the relationship between literature and the social in the twenty-first century.

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