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“Nazism as a function of Sarmiento’s dichotomy of civilización y barbarie, or of revising criollismo after fascism; in short, of renegotiating literary history on a world scale as our notions of time, space, and cultural belonging find themselves in flux.”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

“oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“this fascinating tension between specificity and generality makes the transnational phenomenon of “literary Nazism” a key site for examining the relationship between globalization and literature, especially from a Latin American perspective, for the region has an interestingly ambiguous role with regard to certain totalizing accounts that involve Nazism. On”
― Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

“Part geographical, part political, part cultural, Latin America overspills its bounds: is Belize Latin America? Quebec? Miami? Lavapies, Madrid? The Gaucho Grill, Manchester?”
― Jon Beasley-Murray, Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America