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Avenues of the Americas

Jeffrey Lawrence

Writing on contemporary US and Latin American literature, culture, and politics

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    Associate Professor of English/Comp Lit at Rutgers, novelist, translator. Author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford) and the Spanish-language novel El americano (Chatos Inhumanos)

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