Date of Award
Winter 12-15-2022
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Type
Dissertation
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.
Language
English (en)
Chair and Committee
Ignacio M Sanchez Prado
Committee Members
Andrew Brown
Recommended Citation
Rozo Sanchez, Santiago, "El nacimiento de la novela colombiana: campo literario y políticas de la literatura nacional (1959-1987)" (2022). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2781.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/2781