Rodrigo Lichtle Ventosa
Rodrigo Lichtle Ventosa is a PhD Candidate in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures with a specialization in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto. His dissertation focuses on thematic, formal, and theoretical returns of the seventies in contemporary Latin American experimental cultural objects. He has a forthcoming article, La Cleta Cartonera: Limits and Potentialities of the Expendable in Puebla’s Publishing Market, and served as co-editor of the volume, Para leer la eugenesia en América Latina.
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- Experimental literature;
- Latin American literature of the late 20th and 21st Century;
- New formalism;
- Late Avant-Garde;
- Critiques of Fascisim;
- Creative writing.
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My project analyzes the thematic, formal, and theoretical connections that 21st-century experimental Latin American cultural products have created with the seventies. I argue that the seventies hold, on the one hand, a nostalgic return for writers that also points towards the future, and on the other hand, the formal potentiality to criticize late capitalist and neoliberal logic. Thus, I propose a new reading of formal elements from the seventies that have resurfaced in contemporary cultural products, which still carry their disruptive potential against consumer culture, violence, and fascism.