Reorienting the world : reading Maya literatures through Xocom Balumil / Rita M. Palacios and Paul M. Worley -- World literature in minor key : the Central American short story / Sophie Esch and Ignacio Sarmiento Panez -- Central American testimonio as world literature : English translation and the canonization of a genre / Tamara de Inés Antón -- When does Central American literature become global : the extraordinary (or predictable?) Case of Eduardo Halfon / Magdalena Perkowska -- Cosmopolitanism and disillusion in Rubén Darío / Carlos F. Grigsby -- Álvaro Menen Desleal's speculative planetary imagination / Carolyn Fornoff -- Between internationalism and cosmopolitanism : Roque Dalton and world literature / Yansi Pérez -- Rewriting the militant left : untranslatability and dissensus in Horacio Castellanos Moya / Tamara L. Mitchell -- Humberto Ak'abal's pluri-verses : indigeneity, cosmolectics, and world literature / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón -- Canal zone modernism : Cendrars, Walrond, and Stevens at the "Suction Sea" / Harris Feinsod -- Creole poetics of the ocean : Carlos Rigby, ecological thought and Caribbean diasporic consciousness / Tatiana Argüello -- US Central Americans writing Global South spaces / Andrew Bentley -- Caravaneros as citizens of the world / Robert McKee Irwin.
Summary:
"A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways by exploring texts and writers that go beyond or against the confines of the nation-state"-- Provided by publisher.
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