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Anxieties of Experience - The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolano (Hardcover)
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Anxieties of Experience - The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolano (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from
Whitman to Bolano offers a new interpretation of US and Latin
American literature from the nineteenth century to the present.
Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the
source of authority for New World literature derives from an
author's first-hand contact with American places and peoples or
from a creative (mis)reading of existing traditions, the book
charts a widening gap in how modern US and Latin American writers
defined their literary authority. In the process, it traces the
development of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the
"US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of
the reader." Reinterpreting a range of canonical works from Walt
Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolano's 2666, Anxieties of
Experience shows how this hemispheric literary divide fueled a
series of anxieties, misunderstandings, and "misencounters" between
US and Latin American authors. In the wake of recent calls to
rethink the "common grounds" approach to literature across the
Americas, Jeffrey Lawrence advocates a comparative approach that
highlights the distinct logics of production and legitimation in
the US and Latin American literary fields. Anxieties of Experience
closes by exploring the convergence of the literature of experience
and the literature of the reader in the first decades of the
twenty-first century, arguing that the post-Bolano moment has
produced the strongest signs of a truly reciprocal literature of
the Americas in more than a hundred years.
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