World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise (Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo Book 4)

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. Contents 5 Introduction 7 1: Revisiting world literary institutions: publishers, academic institutions and the way we read 19 Debating world literature without the world: ideas for materializing literary studies based on examples from Latin America and the Caribbean 19 Literatura mundial y multilateralismo: cambiando de rumbo 38 Los críticos como bricoleurs: unas observaciones 49 2: Challenging hegemonies: the local, material grounds of world literature 59 Parochialism from below: on World Literature’s other other 59 La literatura mundial como praxis: apuntes hacia una metodología de lo concreto 68 Los mundos subalternos de la literatura mundial: hacia una comparación de las literaturas indígenas en Abya Yala/ las Américas 82 3: Figuring and reconfiguring the political in world literature 107 World literature/liberal globalization – Notes for a materialistic metacritique of Weltliterary studies 107 The Global Alt-Write or why we should read reactionary (world) literature 117 Testimonio y literaturas del mundo – Notas para un debate 134 4: Dislocating temporal, geographical and environmental mediations 147 Más allá del mundo: imaginación transtemporal para un cierto modo de habitar los confines 147 Reading without habits: a Caribbean contribution to World Literature 158 The challenges of wild spaces to world literary cosmopolitanism 178 5: Precarious worlds: thinking through the crisis of cosmopolitanism 199 The contemporary cosmopolitan condition: borders and world literature 199 Towards a cosmopolitanism of loss: an essay about the end of the world 211 Authors / Autoras y autores 243

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.

In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconceptualizations, or refutations of World Literature.