Transatlantic Studies: Iberia, Latin America, Africa. Introduction and edition with Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, and Robert Newcomb. Liverpool University Press, 2019. A collective volume on methodologies and topics in Translatlantic Studies.
“After the Nation is an extraordinarily rich book that encompasses more than literary criticism—the cultural history of divergent nations that cannot or should not be ignorant of each other’s culture nor of its dissident voices.”—Jean Franco, from the foreword.
“Exemplary in its inter-American scope, well-conceived and clearly written, this book offers an innovative framework to investigate a wide array of interrelated American topics—border crossing, modernity, enlightenment, postcolonalism, exceptionalism—that have shaped the works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon and, by extension, of many contemporary U.S. and Latin American writers.”—Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan and author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain.
After the Nation proposes a series of groundbreaking new approaches to novels, essays, and short stories by Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon within the framework of a hemispheric American Studies. García-Caro offers a pioneering comparativist approach to the contemporary American and Mexican literary canons and their underlying nationalist encodement through the study of a wide range of texts by Pynchon and Fuentes which question and historicize in different ways the processes of national definition and myth-making deployed in the drawing of literary borders. After the Nation looks at these literary narratives as postnational satires that aim to unravel and denounce the combined hegemonic processes of modernity and nationalism while they start to contemplate the ensuing postnational constellations. These are texts that playfully challenge the temporal and spatial designs of national themes while they point to and debase “holy” borders, international borders as well as the internal lines where narratives of nation are embodied and consecrated.
- Juan-Navarro, Santiago. "Review of After the Nation. Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentesand Thomas Pynchon by Pedro García-Caro." The Latin American Literary Review 43.85 (2015) 109-112.
- Castany Prado, Bernat. Revista Iberoamericana, XVI, 62 (2016): 268-70.
- Delden, Maarten. "After the Nation: Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon by Pedro García-Caro (review)." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 50.1 (2016): 263-265.
Wallace Shawn,La fiebre/The Fever A Bilingual Edition/Edición bilingüe. Ed. and trans. by Pedro García-Caro in collaboration with Rafael Spregelburd (Paris: Les editions du Paquebot, 2012).
Books in progress
Postcolonial Spain: The Cultural Politics of Imperial Amnesia. Under contract with publisher.
La verdad sobre el caso José Antonio Primo de Rivera, memorias del juez instructor. Introduction and co-edition with Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel. Under review.
Undermining Empire: Mining Literature and the Aesthetics of Natural Determination.
2. Selection of articles, chapters in books
“Early Ecofeminism in Spain: El metal de los muertos (1920) and Mineros (1932), (anti)Mining Literary Interventions by Concha Espina, Carmen Conde, and María Cegarra.” In A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies, ed. by Luis I. Pradanos (London: Tamesis, 2023) 159-168.
“Testimony and Chronicle in Elena Poniatowska’s Las mil y una... La herida de Paulina.” Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexican and Chicana Writers. Ed. by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. (New York: MLA, 2021), 60-68.
“Introduction: Staking out the Field.” Transatlantic Studies: Iberia, Latin America, Africa. With co-editors, Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, and Robert Newcomb. (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P. 2019), 1-19.
“Triangulating the Atlantic: Blanco White, Arriaza, and the London Debate over ‘Spain.’” Book chapter for Transatlantic Studies: Iberia, Latin America, Africa. (Liverpool: Liverpool U.P. 2019), 178-191.
“Entre occidentalismo y orientalismo: la escritura estereográfica de la Revolución mexicana en España. El militarismo mejicano (1920) de Blasco Ibáñez y Tirano Banderas (1926) de Valle-Inclán.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 65.1 (June 2012). 9-31.
“España, última colonia de sí misma: la justicia en el exilio.”L'exil espagnol dans les Amériques. Ed. Ernesto Mächler Tobar et al. Paris: Indigo et Côté-Femmes, 2011. 51-66.
”Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.” How Far Is America From Here? Ed. Paul Giles, Theo D’Haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005. 323-345.
“Under Western Eyes: D.H. Lawrence’s Mexico.” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN. Ed. Pere Gallardo and Enric Llurda. Lleida: Editions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2000. 281-286.
3. Reviews, interviews.
Review of Cervera Salinas, Vicente. Borges en la ciudad de los inmortales. (Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2015). Hispamérica, 45.
“The Uncertain Territory of Memory: A Conversation with Chilean Writer Roberto Brodsky” in collaboration with Lisa DiGiovanni. World Literature Today, September 2012.
The Death of Carlos Fuentes: An Impossible Silencing Act. In Memoriam (1928-2012). A Contracorriente, Vol. 9, No. 3, Spring 2012, i-x.
“Exorcising the Lettered City: The Literature of the Villista Revolution.A Review of Max Parra’s Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 5: 1 (2007): 215-227.
“Review of Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the US by Manuel G. Gonzales.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, 2: 2 (2004): 252-4.