Nueva Narrativa Weird

3 units

With novels that include everything from talking refrigerators to ghostly twins, alternate histories to extraterrestrials, Latin American narrative of the last two decades from Mexico to Argentina has seen the rise of a nueva narrativa weird. We will explore the various theorizations of the weird, from Lovecraft, Freud, Borges and Cortázar to more recent conceptualizations and use them to evaluate novels by Rodrigo Fresán, Guadalupe Nettel, Jorge Baradit, Mike Wilson, Daniela Tarazona, Edmundo Paz Soldán and Álvaro Bisama. We will examine themes that run from cyborg theory to underground culture and a developing narrative aesthetic of intertextuality based on mashups and sampling.