Literaturas en exhibición: Autores-show y posturas precarias en el siglo XXI hispanoamericano neoliberal

The consolidation of neoliberalism, the demands of the market, the importance of the image, the possibilities offered by social media, and the ways celebrity is constructed not only favor but also demand the exhibition of the artist. This dissertation examines for the first time how twenty-first-century Latin American and Spanish authors with sexual, ethnic, gender, or class identities traditionally excluded from the realm of literary distinction employ self-exhibition to engage with the public, thus redrawing the limits of literature. Reflecting critically on the commodification and manipulation of the contemporary authorial figure, as well as the possibilities of agency that certain non-hegemonic writers have been able to find in recent decades, I demonstrate that through self-exhibition these authors are not only promoting their work but also mobilizing anti-hegemonic activism, incorporating new voices into the transnational publishing market, and broadening the literary experience, contributing to the resignification of the concept of literature