Literature and "Interregnum": Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the 1980s culminates in the suspension of key principles of modernity, most notably that of political s...