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World Editors
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.
The Return of the Contemporary
In The Return of the Contemporary, Nicolás Campisi combines the fields of post-dictatorship studies and environmental humanities to analyze Latin American cultural production in the neoliberal age. Each chapter pairs two authors from different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean who create a common vocabulary in which to frame the various crises of the region’s present and recent past, such as climate change, forced migration, the collapse of state institutions, and the afterlives of slavery. By situating his argument at the intersection of ecocritical and environmental humanities, affect studies, and the politics of memory and postmemory, Campisi presents new comparative methods to show how Latin America's neoliberal crisis prompted significant changes in how the novel as a form imagines a different future.
World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina
The volume analyzes the implications of the “world exhaustion” concept that has emerged in a post-global cultural context and whose effects are particularly salient in Latin American literatures and cultures. This conceptual term aptly describes the ambivalent lived experiences of societies that have been marked by centuries of globalization—and the artistic production that seeks to give form and meaning to these experiences.
Air Travel Fiction and Film
Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of international cultural productions, and elucidates the paradigms and narratives that constitute our current imaginary of air mobility. Erica Durante advances the hypothesis that fiction and film have converted the Airworld—the world of airplanes and airport infrastructures—into a pivotal anthropological place that is endowed with social significance and identity, suggesting that the assimilation of the sky into our cultural imaginary and lifestyle has metamorphosed human society into “Cloud People.” In its examination of the representations of air travel as an epicenter of today’s world, the book not only illustrates a novel perspective on contemporary fiction, but fills an important gap in the study of globalization within literary and film studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-fi...
Worlding Latin America
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.
La literatura latinoamericana en versión francesa
This volume is the first sistematic study of French editorial mediation in the internationalization process of Latin-American literatures. It opens a new field of investigation – Latin-American literary works translated into French – and develops methodological tools to extend this type of study to other literatures from the Global South.
Noticias para Ulises
Concebida ya como un clásico de la literatura cubana, la obra de Virgilio Piñera aparece considerada en sus múltiples facetas en este libro coordinado por Gersende Camenen y Armando Valdés-Zamora. Su escritura incómoda, a contrapelo de la imagen de la política cultural cubana, ha ido aumentando su difusión editorial y su recepción por los lectores, tanto en Cuba como en el resto del mundo. Noticias para Ulises contiene un decisivo recorrido crítico por todos los géneros que cultivó Piñera, narrativa, teatro, poesía, ensayo, periodismo; y por todas sus facetas, lo fantástico, el absurdo, lo grotesco. Partiendo de su desconcertante etapa periodística en Lunes y en Revolución, d...
Großstädte transkulturell erzählen
Das Narrativ der Textstadt «Buenos Paris Aires» stellt ein wirklichkeits-, identitäts- und kollektivstiftendes Erzählmuster in argentinischen und französischen Stadttexten unterschiedlicher Gattungen und Medien dar, welches die Studie erstmals erforscht. Vor dem Hintergrund der über 200-jährigen französisch-argentinischen Geschichte geht es zunächst um die Entstehung und Entwicklung des Narrativs (Präfiguration). Darüber hinaus werden am Beispiel der Textstadt Buenos Paris Aires die Eigenschaften transkultureller Stadttexte sowie die Formen und Funktionen ihrer Textstädte aufgezeigt (Konfiguration). Weiterhin stellt sich die Frage, inwiefern die fiktiven Textstädte auf die realen Städte und Kulturen zurückwirken (Refiguration). Das Narrativ der Textstadt Buenos Paris Aires reist als travelling narrative zwischen den Kulturräumen und trägt maßgeblich dazu bei, die französisch-argentinischen Beziehungen sowie die Identität und das Gedächtnis der beteiligten Kulturgemeinschaften zu verstehen, die sich mit dem Narrativ der Textstadt als imaginierte Erzähl- und Erinnerungsgemeinschaften konsolidieren.
