Héctor Hoyos

Héctor Hoyos is associate professor of Latin American literature at Stanford University. He is the author of the monographs Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia University Press, 2015) and Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America (Columbia University Press, 2019).


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Novels of Colombia’s Patriarchy

Fathers dead and fathers dying—as well as adult children struggling to leave their fathers’ shadow—shape two recent novels from Colombia. Though one concerns a …