Corpse Narratives and the Teleology of World Literary History

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" Corpse Narratives and the Teleology of World Literary History "
Héctor Hoyos

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075766
Doc. No	:	LA119395
Call No	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00201003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Héctor Hoyos
Title & Author	:	Corpse Narratives and the Teleology of World Literary History [Article]\ Héctor Hoyos
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of World Literature
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Page No	:	63–79
Abstract	:	The present essay proposes an orientation towards the corpse as a viable telos for the present-day revival of World Literature as critical paradigm. The argument has three parts. First, it characterizes two central tenets of the existing paradigm: a profession of dynamism for its own sake and an implicit lack of finality. Drawing on Kristeva and on examples from contemporary Latin American fiction, especially Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, the article then introduces corpse narratives that embrace the abject and reorient critical practice towards materiality. Finally, the conclusions propose a modest agenda for a different “worldliteraturism” that valorizes abject materiality over high-minded idealism. The present essay proposes an orientation towards the corpse as a viable telos for the present-day revival of World Literature as critical paradigm. The argument has three parts. First, it characterizes two central tenets of the existing paradigm: a profession of dynamism for its own sake and an implicit lack of finality. Drawing on Kristeva and on examples from contemporary Latin American fiction, especially Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, the article then introduces corpse narratives that embrace the abject and reorient critical practice towards materiality. Finally, the conclusions propose a modest agenda for a different “worldliteraturism” that valorizes abject materiality over high-minded idealism.
Descriptor	:	contemporary Latin American literature
Descriptor	:	corpses
Descriptor	:	necropolitics
Descriptor	:	new materialisms
Descriptor	:	Roberto Bolaño
Descriptor	:	world literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/24056480-00201003‬