L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – North American Literature / Latin American Literature
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America Michael Naas, DePaul University, USA
In a fresh, engaging study of 'last things' – death, mourning, the decline of the American empire, but also apocalypse and the end of the world – this book shows that Don DeLillo has created meaning by juxtaposing last things with their doubles or 'first things': like the wonder of language or the radiance of everyday events. From Americana (1971) up through The Silence (2020), Naas shows how the works of Don DeLillo have been there for more than half a century to remind us of one simple and yet profound truth – nothing lasts forever. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 256 pages PB 9781501390685 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501390692 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501390708 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501390715 • £19.65 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Memory and the Built Environment in 20th-Century American Literature
A Reading and Analysis of Spatial Forms Alice Levick, University of Exeter, UK Focusing on the relationship between processes of demolition and restoration as they have shaped the modern built environment, and the processes by which memory is constructed, hidden, or remade in the literary text, this book explores the ways in which history becomes entangled with the urban space in which it plays out. With reference to the works of D.J. Waldie, Joan Didion, Hisaye Yamamoto, Raymond Chandler, Marshall Berman, Gil Cuadros, Paule Marshall, L. J. Davis and Paula Fox, this book unpacks how time becomes visible in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Lakewood and New York in the decades just before and after the Second World War. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350184657 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350184572 ePub 9781350184596 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350184589 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Cultural Antagonism and the Crisis of Reality in Latin America Horacio Legrás, University of California, Irvine, USA
Legrás explores the literary and humanist questions of gender, race, ethnicity and contradictions of capitalist development that belie colonialist homogenization in reconfiguring the sense of the real in Latin America. Covering four key geographical areas, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the Andes, every chapter delves into a question that has been central to the humanities in the last 20 years: Indigenous worldviews, gender, race, neo-liberalism and visual culture. Legrás illuminates these issues with a thorough theoretical consideration of the ways in which new identities disrupt the imaginary stability of social formations. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501392948 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501392931 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501392924 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
4
The Presidents of American Fiction
Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination Michael J. Blouin, Milligan University, USA The Presidents of American Fiction surveys the evolution of the Commander in Chief within the American imagination. From James Fenimore Cooper to Philip Roth, major American authors have shaped – and been shaped by – the idea of the Presidency. At a moment when popular understandings of the Presidency are being radically rewritten, and readers are reimagining the office and its holder in fundamental ways, this book questions how Presidents have long functioned as characters in the nation's most influential stories, while enhancing our appreciation of American literature’s inextricable link with American politics. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781501381690 • £20.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501381706 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501381713 • £18.92 / $25.15 ePdf 9781501381720 • £18.92 / $25.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Hyperbolic Realism
A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction Samir Sellami, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality. UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781501360497 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501360503 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501360510 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Imagining the Plains of Latin America An Ecocritical Study
Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, Durham University, UK From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders, the book develops new transnational understandings of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities. UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 184 pages PB 9781350235519 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350134294 ePub 9781350134317 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350134300 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk
