Worlding Latin America - Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks

This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquiry from a global perspective. Organized around the central themes of transatlantic and transpacific connections, the construction of world literary canons that include the Latin American continent, and the cultural tensions between local and global intellectual practices, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of several key theoretical and literary interventions. Essays in this volume discuss issues of translatability, geographical imaginaries, local iterations of orientalist discourses, the construction of editorial networks, and the global circulation of cultural commodities.

About the author

Marco Ramírez Rojas
, City University, New York, USA;
José Carlos Díaz-Zanelli
, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Summary

This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary dialogues by incorporating understudied archives and opening new lines of inquiry from a global perspective. Organized around the central themes of transatlantic and transpacific connections, the construction of world literary canons that include the Latin American continent, and the cultural tensions between local and global intellectual practices, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of several key theoretical and literary interventions. Essays in this volume discuss issues of translatability, geographical imaginaries, local iterations of orientalist discourses, the construction of editorial networks, and the global circulation of cultural commodities.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carlos Díaz Zanelli (Editor), José Carlos Díaz Zanelli (Editor), Marco Ramírez Rojas (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2025
• EAN: 9783111430959
• ISBN: 978-3-11-143095-9
• No. of pages: 269
• Weight: 518 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w ill.
• Series: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Social & cultural history, Lateinamerikanisches Spanisch, Literature: history & criticism, Cosmopolitanism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, intellectual networks, world literatures, literary canon