Title
"I Read even the Scraps of Paper I Find on the Street": A Thesis on the Contemporary Literatures of the Americas
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Positions Hemingway as the modernist exemplar of the U.S.’s “writer-as-experience” aesthetic, which directly contrasts with Latin America’s “writer-as-reader” position, represented in Jorge Luis Borges’s work. Asserts that both subject positions merge in the writings of Robert Bolaño to inspire the current generation of Latino-American writers. References The Sun Also Rises’s Jake Barnes and Robert Cohn.
Published in
American Literary History
Volume
26
Issue
3
Date
Fall 2014
Pages
536-558
COinS
Citation
Lawrence, Jeffrey. “‘I Read even the Scraps of Paper I Find on the Street’: A Thesis on the Contemporary Literatures of the Americas.” American Literary History 26, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 536-58.