Post-Global Aesthetics

As its title indicates, the book series "Latin American Literatures in 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, the series 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 of the worldwide reception and circulation of these literatures. Understanding Latin American literature's transnational orientation as its essential feature, the series seeks to provide new perspectives on the global entanglements of Latin America. A special emphasis is placed on works that consider relations and exchanges with Asia, Africa and other world regions beyond the traditional transatlantic focus.

Como su titulo lo indica, la serie "Literaturas latinoamericanas en el mundo" representa un entendimiento innovador de las literaturas concebidas como latinoamericanas y caribenas. A partir de postulados actuales de los estudios de la literatura mundial y la teoria cultural, la serie se centra en trabajos que investigan las multiples conexiones globales de las literaturas latinoamericanas. Este enfoque comprende tanto la transferencia de determinadas esteticas y escrituras al igual que fenomenos de mercado, de recepcion y puesta en circulacion internacionales. En base a la orientacion transnacional de las literaturas latinoamericanas como una de sus caracteristicas fundamentales, la serie busca promover abordajes criticos e innovadores sobre esos entrelazamientos globales de America Latina. Un interes particular consiste en los trabajos que investigan los intercambios con Asia, Africa y otras regiones del mundo mas alla del tradicional enfoque transatlantico.

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.