Examines how modern Colombian literature - from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Juan Gabriel Vasquez - reflects a tumultuous entrance into globalization. While these literary icons bookend Colombia's fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel's evolution into narco-literature.
This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature.
