Abstract
In the oft-heard utterance that circa 2016 the US became a “banana republic,” other than self-deprecating exoticism, lies a deeper truth. This chapter brings Latin Americanist critique to bear on the disturbing ascendancy of the global alt-right in contemporary politics. Through a comparison of several characters in Roberto Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996) with matching alt-right pundits, Hoyos describes the cultural literacy necessary to spot the incongruous subject of an acceptable fascist. The chapter explores the respectability, sexual orientation, and gender role politics of such characters and types. Following Chilean Benjaminean philosopher Willy Thayer’s understanding of the aesthetics of the 1973 coup in Chile, the chapter concludes by offering speculative remarks about the January 6th, 2021 Capitol break-in and its paradoxical relation to avant-garde practices in an attention economy.
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