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Cheyla Samuelson
As a young female writer who has achieved commercial success in the US with popular translations of her work and a critical acclaim that borders on the hyperbolic, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli's (b. 1983) work and public persona have ignited an intense international debate that includes an interrogation of her identity as a Mexican writer, her status as a producer of world literature and the role of translation in the publishing industry in the United States. As her commercial success and critical attention to her work can attest, Luiselli and her texts occupy a privileged space in the imagination of world literature, Latin American literature, Mexican literature and literature in the United States that makes her an important touchstone for understanding contemporary conundrums presented by these increasingly interconnected fields of cultural production. In this article, I consider the disparate critical responses to Luiselli's work in Mexico and the US, and how her transnational and postnational literary production exceeds the limits of both critical traditions to demand a transnational critical approach.
