On the (Im-)Possibilities of Family Narratives in Times of Violence. Writing Family Novels after García Márquez: Roberto Bolaño, Héctor Abad Faciolince, and Pilar Quintana

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introductory Matter
4. Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures 3
5. Overview of the Volume 15
6. 1 Transnational Relations/Constellations
7. Horror, not Nostalgia. Socialism, Diaspora and Family in Cuban and Polish Post-Millennium Graphic Novels 27
8. Family Riddles, Entangled Catastrophes, and Cultural Translation in Bernardo Kucinski’s K and Maciej Zaremba Bielawski’s The House with the Two Towers 63
9. Merging Public and Private Identities: Topics in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Novels 81
10. Memory, History, and the Fragmentation of Family: José Luís Peixoto’s Multi-Generational Novel Book 99
11. 2 Transgenerational/Transtemporal Relations
12. Transgenerational Trauma and Maternal Criticism in a Decolonial Perspective 115
13. Entangled Temporalities and Symptomatic Revisions of the Family Archive in Gastón Solnicki’s Papirosen 131
14. Old New Families and (Good) Old Magic Realism between Brazil and Czechia: Markéta Pilátová’s With Bata in the Jungle 147
15. Autofiction, Transnationality, and Family Constellations in the Work of Eduardo Halfon 169
16. Legacies of Repression and the Siege: Ol’ga Lavrent’eva’s Graphic Novel Survilo as a Family History of Trauma 189
17. 3 Imagined Bonds, New Formations
18. On the (Im-)Possibilities of Family Narratives in Times of Violence. Writing Family Novels after García Márquez: Roberto Bolaño, Héctor Abad Faciolince, and Pilar Quintana 209
19. Transgenerational Imagery in Sofia Andrukhovych’s Novella Collection Old People 231
20. “They are my family”: Cross-Border and Alternative Communities in Cuban Cold War Narratives 251
21. ‘The More Blood Ties, the More Family.’ Deconstructing Biological Bonds in Sara Mesa’s The Family 269
22. Notes on Contributors 289