Publication about transnationalising the Latin American essay

Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispánico. Un género sin orillas, edited by Dr Reindert Dhondt (Spanish language and culture) and Dagmar Vandebosch (University of Leuven) examines how the essay - a privileged genre for the articulation of national identities in Latin America and Spain for decades - is being reconfigured in the present age of globalisation and transnationalisation.

Transnationalising the essay

The articles included in this volume pay particular attention to the discursive forms and the practices of publishing that question old national categories, without disregarding their relevance. Starting from some theoretical considerations about the contemporary Latin American essay, the book concentrates especially on three dimensions of transnationalising the essay: the experience of exile, the tensions between the national and the transnational in the redefinition of Hispanic, and its relation with the genre’s formal hybridisation, in the work of authors such as Bolaño, Piglia and Vila-Matas.

Dr. Reindert Dhondt
Dr Reindert Dhondt

Reindert Dhondt is assistant professor of Hispanic Literature. He is author of Carlos Fuentes y el pensamiento barroco (2015) and has edited International Don Quixote (with Theo D’haen, 2009). He is particularly interested in essayistic discourse in Latin America and the interrelation between violence and literature in Mexico.