Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Writing -- Worlding and decolonizing the literary world-system: Asian-Latin American literature as an alternative type of Weltliteratur -- Global supply chain literature vs. extractivism -- Between Latin America and the Arab world: Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Alberto Ruy Sanchez in Morocco -- Africa en la imaginacion literaria mexicana. Exotismo, desconexion y los limites materiales de la "epistemologia del Sur" -- Ruben Dario: la sutura de los mundos -- The precarious state of the art: Writing the Global South and critical cosmopolitanism in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Roberto Bolano -- 2: Book Markets -- Literatura mundial en biblioburro. Un caso procomun de circulacion literaria -- El derecho a la literatura (mundial y traducida). Sobre el sueno translatologico de la UNESCO -- Re-mapping World Literature from Macondo -- Pablo Neruda in contemporary China: Translation between national and international politics (1949-1979) -- Por una sociologia de las ausencias en la literatura mundial -- La Croix du Sud (1945-1970): genesis y contextos de la primera coleccion francesa de literatura latinoamericana -- 3: Epistemologies -- World literature or Earth literature? Remarks on a distinction -- The World-Literary formation of Antonio Candido -- On the concept figure of the Global South, and ecological narrative promises and deceits -- Orientalismo y realismo magico al reves. Juan Rulfo y Salman Rushdie o los desafios del Sur global para la literatura mundial -- Hacia una teoria de la circulacion, con enfasis en la circulacion de las ideas -- TransArea Tangier: The city and the literatures of the world -- List of contributors.
The book series "Latin American Literatures of the World" presents an innovative understanding of literatures written in Latin America and the Caribbean. Informed by current perspectives on world literary studies and cultural theory, it focuses on works that deal with the multiple global connections of Latin American literatures. This comprises determined aesthetics and forms of writing, as well as book-market-related phenomena..