Abstract
My dissertation is rooted in this understanding and is driven by the following questions: Why read novels today? What can literature do after it loses its social function? What are the politics of literature? The broad aim of the project is to build an infrastructure of the contemporary Colombian novel through its form(s), while laying its foundations through the relations between literary form, literary field, and the politics of literature in the given historical-geographical material conditions of Colombia. My dissertation models an approach to explore Latin American national literatures in the aftermath of the Latin American Boom and into the cultural context of neoliberalism. I construct an infrastructure for Colombian literature weaving together recent approaches to the theory of the novel, new formalisms, and sociology of literature. This allows me to simultaneously confront both a milieu where world literature theory has disregarded the particularities of the national literary field and the hermeneutic and historicist limits of traditional Colombian studies.
Committee Chair
Ignacio M Sanchez Prado
Committee Members
Andrew Brown
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Author's Department
Comparative Literature
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
Winter 12-15-2022
Language
Spanish (es)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/tzwk-8951
Recommended Citation
Rozo Sanchez, Santiago, "El nacimiento de la novela colombiana: campo literario y políticas de la literatura nacional (1959-1987)" (2022). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 2781.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/tzwk-8951