Ashley R. Brock’s soon-to-be-published book, Dwelling in Fiction: Poetics of Place and the Experimental Novel in Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2023), is one of the latest monographs that we have indexed at Southwest Humanities. Brock’s book “explores the limitations and the possibilities of literature for conveying place-specific forms of life. Focusing on authors such as José María Arguedas, João Guimarães Rosa, and Juan José Saer, who are often celebrated for universalizing regional themes,” Brock provides scholars of avant-garde writing and other interested readers “a new critical lens to Latin American writers who were ambivalent toward their era’s ‘boom.'” Exploring the ways that “midcentury aesthetic practices of sensorial pedagogy anticipate contemporary turns toward affect, embodiment, decoloniality, and ecological thought,” Dwelling in Fiction sheds new light on the demands of difficult writing via mid-century experimental literature. For more information about this title, which will be published in December 2023, please take a look at the publisher’s website here.