Cecily Raynor

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Cecily Raynor is an American author and scholar of contemporary Latin American literature and culture.

She is the author of Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces (2021) and co-editor of Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production (2023).^[1][2]

Raynor is an associate professor of Latin American literature and Digital Humanities at McGill University.^[3]

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Raynor's first book, Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces, (2021) analyzes the relationship between local and global forces in contemporary Latin American cultural production.^[4] In it, Raynor argues that contemporary Latin American literature offers distinct narrative modes that configure transformative practices of locality in a globalized world. Through an examination of recent Latin American cultural production– six novels and a play– her book argues that the region's contemporary writing reveals the highly flexible configurations of the local that arise when the experience of place is increasingly transformed by global forces.

Raynor's second book, Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production (2023), is a collection of essays co-edited with Rhian Lewis.^[5] The volume examines regional cultural production in an era of unprecedented digital connectivity, in order to reflect upon a world where digital and analog are increasingly entangled. The ramifications of this entanglement include increasingly close interactions with programming languages, new forms of contact between authors and readers, and activist movements that depend on the narrative capacities of social media.

She has published articles in Digital Humanities Quarterly,^[6] Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies,^[7] Portuguese Studies Review,^[8] Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada,^[9] Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature,^[10] and Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea.^[11] She has contributed book chapters to Latin American Digital Poetics,^[12] Migração e diversidade na narrativa brasileira contemporânea^[13] and Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature.^[14]

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Latin American Literature at the Millennium (2021) has received favorable scholarly reviews. Contemporary Brazilian literature scholar, Sophia Beal, remarked that "Raynor's interpretation is radically different [...] Raynor's intervention engages complex geopolitical issues—migration, human trafficking, global trade, and labor—with keen attention to formal experimentation," going on to state that "Raynor possesses an impressive breadth of knowledge of literature written in Spanish and Portuguese."^[15]

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