Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño

Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolaño's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader."

Author(s): Jeffrey Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Pages: 309
Categories: Literary Criticism