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.

Author: Sophie Esch
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/02/2023
Series: Literatures as World Literature
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781501391873