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Zusatztext This book is a passionate reflection of Central American literature's participation in the construction of world ideas, anchored in the isthmus’ diverse cultural constellations and in the routes of travel, exile and migration. It shows brilliantly how precarious cultural fields can intervene in the redefining of world literature. Informationen zum Autor Sophie Esch is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Rice University, USA, with specialization in Central American, Mexican, and comparative literature. She is author of an award-winning book, Modernity at Gunpoint (2018), and has edited a special dossier on Central American literature for one of the premier journals of her field: “Passages: Routes of Migration and Memory in Central American Literature,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , vol. 54 no. 1. Klappentext 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. 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, testimonios , novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. Central American Literatures as World Literature 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. Vorwort A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways by exploring texts and writers that go beyond or against the confines of the nation-state. Zusammenfassung 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. 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, testimonios , novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms. Central American Literatures as World Literature 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) Part I. Modes 1. Reorienting the World: Reading Maya Literatures through Xocom Balumil Rita M. Palacios (Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada) and Paul M. Worley (Western Carolina University, USA) 2. World Literature in Minor Key: The Central American Short Story Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) and Ignacio Sarmiento Panez (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA) 3. Central American Testimonio as World Literature: English Translation and the Canonization of a Genre Tamara Inés de Antón (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) 4. When Does Central American Literature Become Global?: The Extraordinary (or Predictable?) Case of Eduardo Halfon Magdalena Perkowska (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) Part II. Constellations 5. Cosmopolitanism and ...
