World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise

book: World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2019

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality

Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise

Edited by: Gesine Müller and Mariano Siskind

Volume 4 in the series Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110641134

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About this book

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision.

World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations.

A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Author / Editor information

Gesine Müller, University of Cologne, Germany; Mariano Siskind, Harvard University, USA.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Gesine Müller and Mariano Siskind Open Access Download PDF	1
1: Revisiting world literary institutions: publishers, academic institutions and the way we read
Debating world literature without the world: ideas for materializing literary studies based on examples from Latin America and the Caribbean Gesine Müller Open Access Download PDF	13
Literatura mundial y multilateralismo: cambiando de rumbo Gustavo Guerrero Open Access Download PDF	32
Los críticos como bricoleurs: unas observaciones Nora Catelli Open Access Download PDF	43
2: Challenging hegemonies: the local, material grounds of world literature
Parochialism from below: on World Literature’s other other Héctor Hoyos Open Access Download PDF	53
La literatura mundial como praxis: apuntes hacia una metodología de lo concreto Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Open Access Download PDF	62
Los mundos subalternos de la literatura mundial: hacia una comparación de las literaturas indígenas en Abya Yala/ las Américas Anna M. Brígido-Corachán and César Domínguez Open Access Download PDF	76
3: Figuring and reconfiguring the political in world literature
World literature/liberal globalization – Notes for a materialistic metacritique of Weltliterary studies Jorge J. Locane Open Access Download PDF	101
The Global Alt-Write or why we should read reactionary (world) literature Benjamin Loy Open Access Download PDF	111
Testimonio y literaturas del mundo – Notas para un debate Alexandra Ortiz Wallner Open Access Download PDF	128
4: Dislocating temporal, geographical and environmental mediations
Más allá del mundo: imaginación transtemporal para un cierto modo de habitar los confines Alejandra Laera Open Access Download PDF	141
Reading without habits: a Caribbean contribution to World Literature Guillermina De Ferrari Open Access Download PDF	152
The challenges of wild spaces to world literary cosmopolitanism Marta Puxan-Oliva Open Access Download PDF	172
5: Precarious worlds: thinking through the crisis of cosmopolitanism
The contemporary cosmopolitan condition: borders and world literature Alejandra Uslenghi Open Access Download PDF	193
Towards a cosmopolitanism of loss: an essay about the end of the world Mariano Siskind Open Access Download PDF	205
Authors / Autoras y autores Open Access Download PDF	237

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Comparative Literature; Romance Studies; Cultural Studies; Latin American Literature; History of Ideas)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
Keywords: World Literature; Cosmopolitanism; Post-Globalism

eBook

Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9783110641134

Hardcover

Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9783110641035