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.>

Vorwort
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.

Autorentext
Sophie Esch is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Rice University, USA, with specialization in Central American, Mexican, and comparative literature. She is author of an award-winning book, Modernity at Gunpoint (2018), and has edited a special dossier on Central American literature for one of the premier journals of her field: Passages: Routes of Migration and Memory in Central American Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 54 no. 1.

Inhalt
Introduction Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) Part I. Modes 1. Reorienting the World: Reading Maya Literatures through Xocom Balumil Rita M. Palacios (Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada) and Paul M. Worley (Western Carolina University, USA) 2. World Literature in Minor Key: The Central American Short Story Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) and Ignacio Sarmiento Panez (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA) 3. Central American Testimonio as World Literature: English Translation and the Canonization of a Genre Tamara Inés de Antón (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) 4. When Does Central American Literature Become Global?: The Extraordinary (or Predictable?) Case of Eduardo Halfon Magdalena Perkowska (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) Part II. Constellations 5. Cosmopolitanism and Disillusion in Rubén Darío Carlos F. Grigsby (University of Cologne, Germany) 6. Álvaro Menen Desleal's Speculative Planetary Imagination Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University, USA) 7. Between Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Roque Dalton and World Literature Yansi Pérez (Carleton College, USA) 8. Rewriting the Militant Left: Untranslatability and Dissensus in Horacio Castellanos Moya Tamara L. Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9. Humberto Ak'abal's Pluri-verses: Indigeneity, Cosmolectics, and World Literature Gloria E. Chacón (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Part III. Routes 10. Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond, and Sevens at the "Suction Sea" Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University, USA) 11. Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought, and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness Tatiana Argüello (Texas Christian University, USA) 12. US Central Americans Writing Global South Spaces Andrew Bentley (University of Indiana Bloomington, USA) 13. Caravaneros as Citizens of the World Robert McKee Irwin (University of California Davis, USA) Notes on Contributors Index