Gesine Müller

Benjamin Loy

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures

Post-Global Aesthetics

Jorge J. Locane

Gustavo Guerrero

¿Cómo ingresa la literatura en circulación internacional? ¿Qué factores regulan dicho proceso? ¿Qué transformaciones sufre cuando lo hace? ¿Qué sucede con la que nunca lo consigue o se lo propone? Con foco en la literatura que, de acuerdo con postulados teóricos diseñados en los años 60, es concebida como latinoamericana y con contribuciones de destacados investigadores de diferentes lugares de Europa, América Latina y EE.UU., el volumen Literatura latinoamericana mundial intenta ser un aporte crítico al actual debate sobre literatura mundial. Tres bloques conceptuales, que también son tres de los principales núcleos en torno a los cuales gira la discusión, lo organizan: "gatekeepers", con foco en los dispositivos, actores o instituciones que vehiculizan u obturan la circulación internacional de literatura; "traducción", con reflexiones acerca de este mecanismo ineludible, pero siempre problemático, para que la literatura trascienda fronteras nacionales; y "literaturas locales", concentrado en escrituras y proyectos que, al permanecer aferrados a contextos específicos, constituyen el lado negado de ciertos modelos hegemónicos de la teoría de la literatura mundial.

Dispositivos y disidencias

Literatura latinoamericana mundial

The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.

Dynamics of Global Publishing and the Latin American Case between the Archive and the Digital Age

World Editors

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht erstmals systematisch das Gesamtwerk Roberto Bolaños mit Blick auf die vielfältigen intertextuellen Bezüge des chilenischen Autors. Posthum vor allem wegen seines Romans 2666 von der globalen Literaturkritik zum ersten Klassiker der Weltliteratur des 21. Jahrhunderts stilisiert, fungieren in Bolaños Texten intertextuelle Verweise als ein zentrales Formverfahren, das bislang von der Kritik kaum eingehender untersucht worden ist. Die Werk-Studie situiert Bolaño dabei nicht nur dezidiert innerhalb einer lateinamerikanischen Genealogie eines «wilden Lesens», sondern legt über eine Lektüre, die zugleich philologisch-detailliert und panoramatisch-ideengeschichtlich operiert, die Auseinandersetzungen von Bolaños Texten über die gescheiterten Revolutionen in Lateinamerika oder die Verheerungen des globalen Kapitalismus mit dem literarischen Kanon der (Post-)Moderne frei. Diese umfassen neben der lateinamerikanischen Literatur um Autoren wie Neruda, Borges und Parra insbesondere Bezüge auf die spanische und französische Literatur von Góngora und Pascal über Baudelaire bis zu Perec sowie auf weitere Klassiker der Moderne in Gestalt von Schriftstellern wie Ernst Jünger oder William Carlos Williams.

Eine Ästhetik und Politik der Lektüre

Roberto Bolaños wilde Bibliothek

From the perspective of Latin American Studies, this volume offers a critical contribution to the current debate on world literature. It is structured around three conceptual blocks: "gatekeepers", as the dispositives and actors mediating the international circulation of literature; "translation", as an unavoidable but always problematic mechanism; and "local literatures", as modes of writing that remain intrinsically tied to their contexts.

How can we talk about World Literature if we do not actually examine the world as a whole? Research on World Literature commonly focuses on the dynamics of a western center and a southern periphery, ignoring the fact that numerous literary relationships exist beyond these established constellations of thinking and reading within the Global South. Re-Mapping World Literature suggests a different approach that aims to investigate new navigational tools that extend beyond the known poles and meridians of current literary maps. Using the example of Latin American literatures, this study provides innovative insights into the literary modeling of shared historical experiences, epistemological crosscurrents, and book market processes within the Global South which thus far have received scant attention. The contributions to this volume, from renowned scholars in the fields of World and Latin American literatures, assess travelling aesthetics and genres, processes of translation and circulation of literary works, as well as the complex epistemological entanglements and shared worldviews between Latin America, Africa and Asia. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a must-read for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global

Benjamin Loy

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