Territorios de la crítica. Imaginación, género y violencia en la literatura hispanoamericana

Latin American literary thought has become as broad, complex and irregular as the very geography of the regions that make up the continent. It is a reality crossed by different modernities, ideologies, idiolects, customs, traditions, violence, politics, beliefs, or aesthetics, which seems impossible nowadays to group them under a common imaginary, in a similar way to that which half a century ago shaped magical realism as a sort of unifying motto for what it meant to be an inhabitant of Latin America in the world. As a result of this prolific diversity, this book prefers to tackle territories of critique, more than simple thematic horizons or group interests, as can be seen in the text by Leticia Mora that serves as an introduction to this insight into academic critical thinking, literary criticism has opened its doors to new directions, closer to the social than to the purely linguistic "so qualified of spurious in previous years", which demonstrates the inevitable rise of critical conscience in this moment of great transformations in the culture, the country, or the continent. This book brings together 12 papers that cover different processes, authors, themes, perspectives, methodologies of analysis or theoretical categories of current Latin American literature, divided into three main sections: Imagination, Gender and Violence. The classification simply indicates the possibility of ordering the most diverse cultural manifestations that in practice are part of the same framework. If we obey the metaphor of territoriality, these three paths would be the deep rivers that run through Latin American thought. In this sense, this book constitutes, if not the culmination, then a more mature state of literary criticism, which overturns decades of preconceived ideas about the autonomy of literary studies by showing us that the great works of literature emerge through a process of dialogue, struggle, refutation, rewriting or analysis with the reality that has preceded it.