Imagining Ecuador: Crisis, Transnationalism and Contemporary Fiction by Dr LuisA

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Imagining Ecuador

by Dr Luis A. Medina Cordova

How are contemporary authors reimagining the idea of 'Ecuador' following the worst financial crisis in the nation's history, and how do countries on the periphery of the global literary market challenge and enrich World Literature?

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How are contemporary authors reimagining the idea of 'Ecuador' following the worst financial crisis in the nation's history, and how do countries on the periphery of the global literary market challenge and enrich World Literature?Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication PrizeIn March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian government suspended all banking operations and froze all bank accounts in the country for a period of five days. This episode, the Feriado Bancario, represents the peak of the worst financial crisis in the nation's history and one which had far-reaching and long-last effects on society, politics, the economy, and cultural production. The very idea of 'Ecuador' was transformed, as Ecuador became a country marked by constant interaction with the world beyond its borders.This book explores how contemporary Ecuadorian authors are reimagining the nation following the Feriado Bancario. Starting from a rereading of Ecuador's national novel, Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo (1930), which saw the nation as rooted in the land, the book examines post-crisis fiction which offers an image of Ecuador as a transnational space. It posits that these novels - Eliecer Cardenas' El oscuro final del Porvenir (2000), Leonardo Valencia's Kazbek (2008), Carlos Arcos' Memorias de Andres Chiliquinga (2013), and Gabriela Aleman's Humo (2017) - both reflect and explain the new reality of Ecuador as a nation that can no longer be defined by its territory. At the same time, the book uses the Ecuadorian case to challenge the conceptualisation of Latin American literature as 'post-national' and to show how countries on the periphery of the global literary market can, from the very fact of their minoritarian position, enrich and better define World Literature.

Author Biography

LUIS A. MEDINA CORDOVA is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionI: Land, History, NationII: Crisis, Fiction, TransformationIII: Reimagining Ecuador TransnationallyIV: Latin America, Ecuador, the WorldConclusionBibliography

Details ISBN1855663589 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1855663589 ISBN-13 9781855663589 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-11-22 UK Release Date 2022-11-22 Imprint Tamesis Books Place of Publication Woodbridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from English AU Release Date 2022-11-22 NZ Release Date 2022-11-22 Illustrations 2 b/w illus. Pages 203 Subtitle Crisis, Transnationalism and Contemporary Fiction Author Dr LuisA. Medina Cordova Series Monografías A DEWEY 863.7099866 Audience Professional & Vocational Alternative 9781800104860

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  • Author: Dr LuisA. Medina Cordova
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