Description: "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"--
Brief description: 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.
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"Central American Literatures as World Literature marks an important milestone in the opening up of Central American studies to a broader paradigm. Its contributors discuss some of Central America's most renowned authors as well as lesser known but increasingly important Black, Indigenous, queer, and immigrant writers. This book draws us away from the narrow nationalist frameworks that have dominated our understanding of Central American society and moves us toward the pluricultural realities and diverse Indigenous cosmologies of the region. I applaud the editor and the contributors for producing a volume that showcases the richness of Central American literature and its diaspora." --Nanci Buiza, Associate Professor of Spanish, Swarthmore College, USA
"This book is a passionate reflection of Central American literature's participation in the construction of world ideas, anchored in the isthmus' diverse cultural constellations and in the routes of travel, exile and migration. It shows brilliantly how precarious cultural fields can intervene in the redefining of world literature." --Mónica Albizúrez, Lecturer of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Universität Hamburg, Germany "This book is not just for scholars within the field, but for anyone interested in postcolonial and global South literatures, American literature (as it addresses US-Central American authors), and Latin American literatures in relation... This pioneering book ultimately positions Central American scholarship as world literature and, therefore, world-making." --Romance Quarterly