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Book review: Javier Ordiz (ed.), Estrategías y figuraciones de lo insólito en la narrative Mexicana (siglos XIX-XXI)
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-23, 15:36 authored by Sheldon Penn[First paragraph] Resulting from a MINECO supported project led by the editor alongside a group
of researchers at the University of León, this volume comprises essays from eight
scholars from Spanish Universities as well as a contribution from the Mexican
novelist Daniela Tarazona. The thematic focus of ‘lo insólito’ is broad, and
contributors cover a range of genres from terror and Magic Realism to the
postmodern Gothic and science fiction. Whilst some authors theorise the
parameters of their own literary examples of ‘lo insólito’ more than others, the
reader is assisted by David Roas’s chapter, in which he provides a comparative
definition of categories in the field. Concise and forthright, Roas draws sharp
category boundaries that some may consider a little rigid (taxonomy in this field
is notoriously contentious) but his contribution precisely enables that process of
reflection through the course of the collection.
History
Citation
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2017, 94 (5), pp. 912-913 (1)Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of ArtsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)