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Description
This book analyzes the relationship between writing and capitalist accumulation in Latin America, from the fifteenth century to the late twentieth century.
Ricardo García reflects on how the logic of accumulation has shaped value, literature, and the role of the intellectual in Latin America. By reading several key figures for the region, from the sailor and cosmonaut Columbus to the twenty-first century writer Valeria Luiselli, the author teases out the different ways that accumulation has transformed the region from the sixteenth century and twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cumulation to Accumulation: Encounters in the Chronicles of the Indies
Chapter 2: Ruins of the Lettered City and Expanded Imagination in Castellanos Moya
Chapter 3: (Ac)cumulation as Perseverance: Addition and Addiction in Levrero
Chapter 4: Stasis and Repetition in Aira
Chapter 5: Machines, Echoes, and Cumulation in Luiselli's Lost Children Archive
Conclusion: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cumulous
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Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 274 |
| ISBN | 9798765151679 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 b&w illus |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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