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América No. 36, Travels and Foundations
Novel and Narrative Prose

América No. 36: Travels and Foundations, 2nd series

Published on: 07/17/2007

Publisher: PUSORBONNE NOUVELLE

Isbn: 978-2-87854-404-6 / Ean 13: 9782878544046

Publisher's Price: 20.00 €

CONTENTS

NOMADISM

# Nomadism: A Dynamic Rooting

DEEP INTO THE UNKNOWN TO FIND THE NEW

# Wandering and Writing in Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives

# The Journey to Patagonia Revisited by Mempo Giardinelli in End of a Novel in Patagonia

# Plunging into Nothingness: Notes on Travel and Foundation in the Work of César Aira

# Sergio Pitol's 'Traveled Self'

VOCATIONS OF WANDERING

# Paris-Copiapó: The Route of Writing; Notes on Sarmiento's Travels

# Wandering in The Adventures and Tribulations of Maqroll el Gaviero by Álvaro Mutis

# The Vocation of Wandering and Nostalgia for Foundation in the Work of Álvaro Mutis

# Journey to the Center of the Labyrinth: Figures of Travel and Foundation in La Lotería de San Jorge

This scholarly volume investigates the complex relationship between physical movement, displacement, and the search for origins in modern Latin American writing. By examining how authors negotiate the tension between wandering and rooting, the collection offers critical perspectives on diaspora, exile, and the reinvention of cultural identity. The essays analyze how travel serves not merely as a physical journey, but as a fundamental method of literary composition, intellectual inquiry, and existential exploration across diverse narrative landscapes.

The book will prove valuable to students, researchers, and enthusiasts of Hispanic literature and cultural studies seeking deeper insight into contemporary continental aesthetics. It provides nuanced readings of major figures like Roberto Bolaño, César Aira, and Álvaro Mutis, contextualizing their work within broader traditions of travel writing and foundational myth. Readers interested in the intersections of geography, modernism, and post-national identity will find these thematic explorations particularly illuminating for their own critical research.