New perspectives in literary studies. Reflections from a suburb of the world.

Abstract

This article seeks to show the general lines of creation and research horizon that are open to Latin American literature. In order to achieve the above, the conference takes as a reference framework “Three proposals for the next millennium (and five difficulties)”, by the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia. In a second moment and as an illustration of Piglia’s approach, Roberto Bolaño’s narrative is addressed. In addition, by way of historical review, the coincidences and cross-references of the work (with special emphasis on language) of the writers João Guimarães Rosa and Juan Rulfo are used; to then give way to the work of Tomás Rivera as a reference of Chicano literature and talk about the wealth, circumstance and conditions of possibility of the latter, starting from the conceptions of Hispanicness, especially the third, exposed by Carlos Fuentes in his work The buried mirror