Bardo99: The First Geopolitical Novel

Marcus Embry will read Pineda’s Bardo99 through Caren Irr’s recent definition of a geopolitical novel that responds to the new context of the US in a geopolitics it cannot control, provides new narratives of political... [ view full abstract ]

Marcus Embry will read Pineda’s Bardo99 through Caren Irr’s recent definition of a geopolitical novel that responds to the new context of the US in a geopolitics it cannot control, provides new narratives of political life, and resists the “program era,” neo-liberal training of US Academe’s MFA programs. Pineda is, in other words, emblematic of the fin de siècle she sought to describe in Bardo99, and she becomes one of the first geopolitical writers of the twenty-first century. Embry will consider Bardo99 in the context of other recent attempts to locate twenty-first century fiction, “global remapping” and “global fictions,” and argue that rather than ask us to retask twentieth century politics, Pineda tells us that politics and writers must be reborn.

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