Posthuman Worlds
Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality
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2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4987-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4987-4 (ISBN)
Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality is a literary, psychoanalytic, and philosophical investigation of the representation of subjectivity and reality in the context of the relationship of Europe to the Americas as represented in Roberto Bolaño’s narrative.
Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolaño. As befits the global setting of most of these narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global culture and politics. Particular attention is paid to transnational European politics, as this topic is central to an understanding of the intertwined themes of politics and the law in Bolaño’s work. In Distant Star and “Labyrinth,” these themes exist within the context of a preoccupation with personal identity and ideology. Adolfo Cacheiro utilizes psychoanalytic interpretation and philosophical exegesis to clarify the subjective component of this preoccupation in the aforementioned texts. The law is also a prominent theme of The Savage Detectives, which Cacheiro interprets in relation to mythology. One of the most innovative aspects of this book is the discussion of the role of virtual reality in Amulet and 2666. These novels are read as representations of a posthuman world that manifest an intertextual relationship with science fiction. In 2666 virtual reality unifies the diverse components of a world system in time and space. A phenomenological investigation of this reality supports the conclusion that the principle subject matter of 2666 is a naturalistic theology based on technology.
Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolaño. As befits the global setting of most of these narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global culture and politics. Particular attention is paid to transnational European politics, as this topic is central to an understanding of the intertwined themes of politics and the law in Bolaño’s work. In Distant Star and “Labyrinth,” these themes exist within the context of a preoccupation with personal identity and ideology. Adolfo Cacheiro utilizes psychoanalytic interpretation and philosophical exegesis to clarify the subjective component of this preoccupation in the aforementioned texts. The law is also a prominent theme of The Savage Detectives, which Cacheiro interprets in relation to mythology. One of the most innovative aspects of this book is the discussion of the role of virtual reality in Amulet and 2666. These novels are read as representations of a posthuman world that manifest an intertextual relationship with science fiction. In 2666 virtual reality unifies the diverse components of a world system in time and space. A phenomenological investigation of this reality supports the conclusion that the principle subject matter of 2666 is a naturalistic theology based on technology.
Adolfo Cacheiro is professor of Spanish at Wayne State College.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Autobiographical Phenomenology
Chapter 1: The Force Field of the Real: Imaginary and Symbolic Identification in Distant Star
Chapter 2: Fidelity to the Event in “Labyrinth”
Chapter 3: The Savage Detectives and Fate
Chapter 4: Amulet as a Posthuman Text
Chapter 5: Transnational Allegory as a Prelude to Brexit
Chapter 6: The Part about Heidegger
Chapter 7: Bizarro World
Chapter 8: Virtual Reality and the Revolutionary Subject
Chapter 9: “Redemption to the Redeemer”
Conclusion: Ontological Considerations
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 b/w illustrations; |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-4987-1 / 1793649871 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-4987-4 / 9781793649874 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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