Dove - Literature and interregnum: globalization, war, and the crisis of sovereignty in Latin America

LITERATURE AND INTERREGNUM

SERIES EDITORS

David E. Johnson (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo)

Scott Michaelsen (English, Michigan State University)

SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

Nahum D. Chandler (African American Studies, University of California, Irvine)

Rebecca Comay (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)

Marc Crpon (Philosophy, cole Normale Suprieure, Paris)

Jonathan Culler (Comparative Literature, Cornell)

Joanna Drucker (Design Media Arts and Information Studies, UCLA)

Christopher Fynsk (Modern Thought, Aberdeen University)

Rodolphe Gasch (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo)

Martin Hgglund (Comparative Literature, Yale)

Carol Jacobs (Comparative Literature & German, Yale University)

Peggy Kamuf (French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California)

David Marriott (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Steven Miller (English, University at Buffalo)

Alberto Moreiras (Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University)

Patrick ODonnell (English, Michigan State University)

Pablo Oyarzn (Teora del Arte, Universidad de Chile)

Scott Cutler Shershow (English, University of California, Davis)

Henry Sussman (German and Comparative Literature, Yale University)

Samuel Weber (Comparative Literature, Northwestern)

Ewa Ziarek (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo)

LITERATURE AND INTERREGNUM

Globalization, War, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Latin America

PATRICK DOVE

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2016 State University of New York

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Names: Dove, Patrick, 1967- author.

Title: Literature and interregnum : globalization, war, and the crisis of sovereignty in Latin America / Patrick Dove.

Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] | Series: SUNY series, Literature in Theory | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036593| ISBN 9781438461557 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438461564 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Spanish American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. | Spanish American literature21st centuryHistory and criticism. | Literature and globalization. | Sovereignty in literature. | Literature and societyLatin America.

Classification: LCC PQ7081 .D686 2016 | DDC 860.9/980904dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036593

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For Samuel, Theo and Reuven, and their love of stories

This book has been a long time in the making, so much so that its initial impulses were born in what might be called a different world: that of Southern California in late August 2001. In the wake of that turbulent autumn the concerns and impulses that gave rise to this project have undergone significant mutations and acquired new directions, both in response to world events and in view of the ongoing transformations that are affecting the academic spheres of Latin American literary and cultural studies and the theoretical humanities in general. My thinking about the guiding themes and questions in this book has been shaped through sustained conversations with old and new friends, including Bram Acosta, Marco Dorfsman, Moira Fradinger, Erin Graff-Zivin, Edgar Illas, Danny James, Kate Jenckes, John Kraniauskas, Brett Levinson, Alberto Moreiras, Sam Steinberg, Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, and Gareth Williams.

At Indiana University, where the vast majority of this book was written, I am profoundly grateful for the friendship and intellectual comradery of many colleagues. In particular I would like to thank Anke Birkenmaier, Michel Chaouli, Deborah Cohn, Melissa Dinverno, Ryan Giles, Carl Good, Jeff Gould, Andrs Guzmn, Edgar Illas, Danny James, Josh Kates, Cathy Larson, Alejandro Mejas-Lpez, Kate Myers, Bill Rasch, Jonathan Risner, Ben Robinson, and Steve Wagschal for helping to make Bloomington an intellectually vibrant and rewarding place to work. This book also bears the imprint of the many graduate students with whom conversations have helped spur my thinking about Bolao, political thought, globalization, and global war.

The development of ideas in this book also benefited from invitations to give talks and discuss work in progress in various venues. For opportunities to share my ideas and to refine them in dialogue with others I express my gratitude to David Johnson, Alberto Moreiras, and Dianna Niebylski. I am also extremely grateful to David for the encouragement and guidance he has provided as editor of the Literature In Theory series. By the same token, Beth Bouloukos at SUNY Press has helped to facilitate the production process.

This book bears an inestimable debt to my family. To my parents, Bill and Alex, I am eternally grateful for the way they exemplify and support intellectual inquiry and reading as ends unto themselves. To my parents-in-law, Ginny and Jerry Myerson, I am thankful for their boundless generosity, which includes devotion to their grandchildren and a commitment to being an integral part of their young lives. Samuel, Theo, and Reuven: this book has grown up alongside you and has never stopped learning from your ways of asking questions, and has benefited more than you can know from your curiosity and desire to understand the world you live in. It is your spark and your laughter that have breathed life into these pages. Last but not least, I am thankful to my wife Deborah, whose encouragement, companionship, and sense of humor made it possible to carry this project out.

Portions of appeared in the following venues: CR: The New Centennial Review 4:2 (Fall 2004): 23967; Revista de Estudios Hispnicos 43:1 (January 2009): 330; Sergio Chejfec: Trayectorias de una escritura , ed. Dianna Niebylski (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2012); and CR: The New Centennial Review 14:3 (Fall 2014): 13961. They are reprinted here with the permission of the journals and Pittsburgh University Press.

The publication of this book was partially funded by the Office of the Vice Provost of Research at Indiana University Bloomington through the Grant-in-Aid Program.

Literature and Interregnum looks at late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century literary responses to neoliberal-administered globalization and its impact on the conceptual vocabularies of political and aesthetic modernity in Latin Americas Southern Cone and Mexico. The book endeavors to establish dialogues between literature and a range of theoretical perspectives including Continental philosophy (Aristotle, Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Agamben, Schrmann, Thayer), political thought (Hobbes, Marx, Benjamin, Schmitt, Gramsci, Jameson, Laclau, Rancire, Virno, Galli), psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), and sociology of globalization (Harvey, Sassen, Reguillo, Segato). Through juxtaposition of the methods and sensibilities proper to these traditions of inquiry I explore two related hypotheses.