Central American Literatures as World Literature

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Esch
• Assisted by: Thomas Oliver Beebee (Editor), Sophie Esch (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.05.2025
• EAN: 9781501391910
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-9191-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Literatures as World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: general, Mexico and Central America