This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature.

BRANTLEY NICHOLSON is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Georgia College in Milledgeville. His research and teaching take up comparative-American studies and the theoretical questions of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and economics. His recent research has focused on post-national imaginaries in Chile and Colombia and the emergence of new global cities in the Andean region, such as Santiago, Bogotá, and Medellín.
 

Preface & Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Gabo Against the World: Gabriel García Márquez and the Poetics of Early Globalization
2. Literary Shipwrecks:  Colombian Aesthetic Citizenship after García Márquez
3. Narrating Disruption: From the Novela de la Violencia to the Narco-novela
4. Recasting the Colombian National Story after the Inrush of the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index