Latin-american literature and new mappings (the writers’ perspective)

Abstract

When moving to essay territory, fiction writers privilege the literature as the theme; they unfold some reading commentary, signaling their literary preferences
or showing their positions on cultural debate. The essay presents itself as an instance of questioning their own writing practice in relation with the exercise of literary review, but without identification with its institutionalized ways, because
it dissolves the limits of disciplinary knowledge concepts drifting to subjective enunciation that resists to any kind of systematized writing. In its freedom, the essay ensures the possibility to interfere critically in the established literary order, reactivating cultural debate from the writer perspective. This work deals with a set of narrator essays that question the conditions of the Latin American literature possibility in a globalized context of the writing practice in the 21st century. Detached from the methodical exercise of literary review that gives proof of a supposed specificity to this kind of literature, the essays of Jorge Volpi, Juan Villoro and Sergio Chejfec are imagination exercises and configure critical cartography to
any difference reduction perspective, proposing extraterritorial transits that free the literary word from representativeness commitment.