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Antonio Isea
Antonio Isea has taught Spanish American literature at Western Michigan University since 1996. He specializes in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century Venezuelan novel, literary theory and postcolonial novelistic discourse in the Spanish-Caribbean. He has researched and published on various areas of Spanish American literature (historical novel, detective fiction and narratives of melodrama). Dr Isea is currently working on the construction of affect and masculinity in Venezuelan cinema and literature. Dr Isea’s first book, Historiografía y ficción en la narrativa de Denzil Romero (1999), was the first major study of the work of that important Venezuelan author and covers topics such as race and nation-building in Venezuela. His second book, Figuraciones del hinterland (2008), consists of eight essays that interpret the cultural, social and economic map of the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s oil mecca. The book explores notions of modernity and cultural liminality in Venezuela, one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world.