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