Elective Affinities - Rethinking Entanglements between Latin America and East-Central Europe

From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic «elective affinities», to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as «post-imperial», «marginal», or «peripheral».
In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history.

About the author

Agnieszka Helena Hudzik, Saarland University; Joanna M. Moszczynska, University of Regensburg; Jorge Estrada, Free University of Berlin; Patricia Gwozdz, University of Potsdam.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jorge Estrada (Editor), Patricia A. Gwozdz (Editor), Agnieszka H. Hudzik (Editor), Joanna M. Moszczynska (Editor), Joanna M. Moszczyńska (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2024
• EAN: 9783111247458
• ISBN: 978-3-11-124745-8
• No. of pages: 313
• Weight: 583 g
• Illustrations: 5 b/w and 7 col. ill.
• Series: mimesis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Weltliteratur, Osteuropa, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, World Literature, LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LIT004130 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LIT006000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Erste Hälfte 21. Jahrhundert (ca. 2000 bis ca. 2050), Periode des Kalten Krieges (ca. 1945 bis ca. 1990), transareal relations, intellektuelle Netzwerke, postimperiales Zeitalter, post-imperial age, transareale Beziehungen, intellectual networks