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González studies the emergence of the Spatial Turn in the 1990s and its impact on the Latin American literary critics analyzing the representation of the city in Latin American literature. He highlights the important role of early twenty-first century feminist readings of Latin American women writers in updating the study of urban space, focusing in their rejection of Ángel Rama’s theory of the lettered city. González then summarizes the prevailing view of the neoliberal and postmodern city among cultural critics and social scientists. The general perception of the Latin American urban space as a place in ruins is a common theme that connects many of the contemporary readings of this topic. However, González also notices in contemporary fiction the presence of utopian elements, of community efforts to improve the living conditions created by globalization.
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González, J.E. (2019). The Spatial Turn and Twenty-First Century Latin American Fiction. In: González, J., Robbins, T. (eds) Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92438-0_1
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