Central American Literatures as World Literature / edited by Sophie Esch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esch, Sophie, editor.

Series:

Literatures as world literature

Literatures as World Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central American literature--History and criticism.

Central American literature.

Central American literature--Appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

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Summary:

<b>Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary production, this collection positions and discusses Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature. </b> This groundbreaking volume draws on new scholarship on global, transnational, postcolonial, translational, and sociological perspectives on the region's literature, expanding and challenging these debates by focusing on the heterogenous literatures of Central America and its diasporas. Contributors discuss poems, <i>testimonios</i>, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. <i>Central American Literatures as World Literature </i>explores the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the indigenous, Black, and migrant voices.

Contents:

<b>Introduction</b> <i>Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA)</i> <b><b> </b>Part I.</b> <b>Modes</b> 1. Reorienting the World: Reading Maya Literatures through <i>Xocom Balumil</i> <i>Rita M. Palacios (Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada) and Paul M. Worley (Western Carolina University, USA)</i> 2. World Literature in Minor Key: The Central American Short Story <i>Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) and </i><i>Ignacio Sarmiento Panez (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA)</i><i> </i>3. Central American <i>Testimonio</i> as World Literature: English Translation and the Canonization of a Genre <i>Tamara Inés </i><i>de </i><i>Antón (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica)</i> 4. When Does Central American Literature Become Global?: The Extraordinary (or Predictable?) Case of Eduardo Halfon <i>Magdalena Perkowska (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)</i> <b>Part II. Constellations</b> 5. Cosmopolitanism and Disillusion in Rubén Darío <i>Carlos F. Grigsby (University of Cologne, Germany)</i> 6. Álvaro Menen Desleal's Speculative Planetary Imagination <i>Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University, USA)</i> 7. Between Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Roque Dalton and World Literature <i>Yansi Pérez (Carleton College, USA)</i> 8. Rewriting the Militant Left: Untranslatability and Dissensus in Horacio Castellanos Moya <i>Tamara L. Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada)</i> 9.<i> </i>Humberto Ak'abal's Pluri-verses: Indigeneity, Cosmolectics, and World Literature <i>Gloria E. Chacón (UC Santa Cruz, USA)</i><i> </i><b>Part III. Routes</b> 10. Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond, and Sevens at the "Suction Sea" <i>Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University, USA)</i> 11. Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought, and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness <i>Tatiana Argüello (Texas Christian University, USA)</i> 12. US Central Americans Writing Global South Spaces <i>Andrew Bentley (University of Indiana Bloomington, USA)</i> 13. Caravaneros as Citizens of the World <i>Robert McKee Irwin (University of California Davis, USA)</i> <i>Notes on Contributors</i> <i>Index</i>

ISBN:

9781501391903

OCLC:

1382694917

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