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Chair and Professor, Department of World Languages

Dr. Adrian Kane is a Professor in the Department of World Languages. Dr. Kane received his doctorate in Spanish from University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research interests include Latin American fiction, avant-garde and postmodern fiction, and Mexican and Central American literature and culture. Dr. Kane recently published papers in Istmo: Revista Virtual de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Centroamericanos and the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

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About Adrian T. Kane

Dr. Adrian Kane is a Professor in the Department of World Languages. Dr. Kane received his doctorate in Spanish from University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research interests include Latin American fiction, avant-garde and postmodern fiction, and Mexican and Central American literature and culture. Dr. Kane recently published papers in Istmo: Revista Virtual de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Centroamericanos and the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Present	Chair and Associate Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of World Languages
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

Spanish and Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literature

2008 Boise State University Modern Languages and Literatures Award
2007 Boise State University Service-Learning Grant
2007 Boise State University College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant

Spanish 498: The Discourse of Modernity in 20th Century Mexican Fiction
Spanish 498: The Environment in Latin American Literature and Culture

Articles (7)

Inverting the Discourse of Civilization and Barbarism in Mundo del Fin del Mundo and Un Viejo que Leía Novelas de Amor by Luis Sepúlveda (Adrian Taylor Kane) FORMA (2023)

American critic Raymond Leslie Williams has convincingly argued that a desire to be modern is a central characteristic of the 20th century Latin American novel. Williams's argument also coincides with Octavio Paz's assertion that modernity ...

US Central American Identities in Roberto Quesada’s Big Banana and Nunca Entres por Miami (Adrian Taylor Kane) Hispania (2022)

Following several calls in recent scholarship for increased attention to the study of the Central American diaspora in the United States, this article offers readings of Honduran-born author Roberto Quesada’s novels Big Banana (1999) and ...

Central American Rivers as Sites of Colonial Contestation (Adrian Taylor Kane) Review of International American Studies (2021)

In the introduction to Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination (2013), Elizabeth Pettinaroli and Ana María Mutis have argued that rivers in Latin American literature constitute a “locus for the literary exploration of questions ...

Blood in the Water: Salvadoran Rivers of Testimony and Resistance (Adrian Taylor Kane) Hispanic Issues On Line (2013)

From the 1970s to the early 1990s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period, all three of these Central ...

Humor, Irony and Surrealism in Luis Cardoza y Aragón’s Maelstrom: Films telescopiados (1926) (Adrian Kane) Brújula (2012)

Guatemalan novelist and critic Arturo Arias has suggested that the disappearance of the socialist block and the crisis of Marxism at the end of the twentieth century have provided an opportunity to reevaluate with fresh ...

Ludics as Subversion in Arturo Arias’s Sopa de Caracol (2002) (Adrian Kane) Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2009)

El Tigre de Flavio Herrera: Entre el Criollismo y el Vanguardismo (Adrian Kane) Istmo: Revista Virtual de Estudios Literarios y Culturales Centroamericanos (2008)

En su prólogo a la novela El tigre, Francisco Albizúrez Palma la describe como “una de las más conocidas obras literarias” de Guatemala, aseverando que resulta “fundamental para el conocimiento y exploración de la literatura ...

Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926-1936) (Adrian Taylor Kane) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2014)

This book analyzes the relation between cultural changes and experimental fiction written during the 1920s and 30s. This era, known in Latin America as the historical avant-garde, was characterized by a wave of literary and ...

The Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings (Adrian Taylor Kane) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2010)

This volume advances the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments, transcending national boundaries by addressing diverse regions. The forms of environmental criticism practiced converge with literary ...

Collateral Damage: Nature and the Accumulation of Capital in Héctor Aguilar Camín's El Resplandor de la Madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen (Adrian Taylor Kane) Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World (2020)

The Nicaragua Canal and the Shifting Currents of Sandinista Environmental Policy (Adrian Taylor Kane) Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature (2016)

The 1979 triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua was a pivotal movement in Central American history that presented great hope for social progress on multiple fronts, not least of which was the country's environmental ...

Redefining Modernity in Latin American Fiction: Toward Ecological Consciousness in La loca de Gandoca and Lo que soñó Sebastian (Adrian Taylor Kane) Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015)

Octavio Paz has stated, and literary critics have amply documented, that the concept of modernity has been a prominent concern of Latin American intellectuals since the nineteenth century (5). A cursory glance at the terminology ...

Constructing Historical Memory in U.S. Central American Literature (Adrian Taylor Kane) Latin American Studies International Congress (2023)

This presentation offered an analysis of the ways in which several texts from the 2017 multi-genre anthology “The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States,” edited by Leticia Hernández Linares, Rubén Martínez and ...

Jaime Torres Bodet’s Margarita de Niebla (1927) in Dialogue with José Ortega y Gasset (Adrian T. Kane) Latin American Studies Association Congress 2019 (2019)

In his paper, Kane argues that the Mexican novel “Margarita de niebla” can be read as an artistic response to Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset’s 1925 essays, La deshumanización del arte and Ideas sobre ...

The Disastrous Ecology of Narco Trafficking in Jennifer Clement’s Prayers for the Stolen (Adrian Kane) XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (2018)

The Central American Diaspora in Nunca entres por Miami (Adrian Taylor Kane) 98th Annual Conference Amreican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (2016)

This presentation is an analysis of the Central American migration experience as portrayed in Honduran novelist Roberto Quesada’s Nunca entres por Miami (2002). By focusing on the protagonist’s journey from Honduras through Miami to New ...

Toward a Redefinition of Modernity in Luis Sepúlveda's An Old Man Who Read Love Stories and World at the End of the World (Adrian Taylor Kane) The Invention of Nature in Latin America [University Tübingen, Germany] (2016)

Kane argues that the Chilean author’s novels, respectively set in the Amazon and Patagonia, are examples of a recent body of Latin American environmentalist fiction that suggests a shift from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric ...

Teaching Environmental Issues through Latin American Literature (Adrian Kane) Idaho Association of Teachers of Language and Culture State Conference (2015)

Introduction to three short poems by Mexican poet and environmental activist Homero Aridjis. Discussion of the Nicaragua Canal in the context of Sandinista environmental poetry and policy, including analysis of the popular protest video "No ...

The Shifting Currents of Sandinista Environmental Policy (Adrian Kane) Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference (2015)

Blood in the Water: Rivers and Resistance in Central American Literature and Film (Adrian Kane) 66th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2012)

In the 1970s and 80s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period all three of these Central American countries ...

Surrealism in Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Leyendas de Guatemala (Adrian Kane) 94th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (2012)

Nature and the Discourse of Modernity in Spanish American Avant-Garde Fiction (Adrian Kane) Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference (2009)

A Subversive Alliance: The Avant-Garde Roots of Postmodern Fiction in Latin America (Adrian Kane) Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention (2008)

News of the Earth, by Homero Aridjis (Adrian Taylor Kane) Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (2018)

Homero Aridjis's Newsof the Earth is the translated and updated version of his 2012 collection of essays Noticias de la Tierra. In this anthology, the internationally acclaimed Mexican author and environmental activist offers an extensive ...

Políticas de la destruccióti / Poéticas de la preservación: Apuntes para una lectura (eco)crítica del medio ambiente en América Latina (Adrian Taylor Kane) Revista de Estudios Hispanicos (2016)