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Writing and Accumulation in Latin America

Letters of Blood and Fire

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Writing and Accumulation in Latin America

Letters of Blood and Fire

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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
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
Bibliography

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Nov 12 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 274
ISBN 9798765151693
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 3 b&w illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Ricardo García

Ricardo García is an instructor at the University…

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