The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face of Globalization

by Brantley Nicholson

This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature--from Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez to Juan Gabriel V?squez--reflects one of the world's most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia's fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel's evolution into narco-literature. Marking Colombia's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684483654
• ISBN13: 9781684483655
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher