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"This book is designed to offer an overview of ways in which the subject areas of American Literature and World Literature have converged (and diverged) over the past twenty or thirty years. American literature is now widely regarded as engaging with global rather than merely with local or national phenomena, and American World Literature: An Introduction attempts to set these changing conceptions of the subject in both critical and historical context. It also suggests how this perception of American literature as a global or "world" phenomenon has varied significantly across time, so that the intellectual investments of Cotton Mather in ideas of universal forms during the seventeenth century can be productively compared and contrasted to the resurgence of nationalist and transnational templates in the poetry of Walt Whitman two hundred years later. In his preface to Literary Theory: An Introduction, published in 1983, Terry Eagleton wrote of how he had "tried to popularize rather than vulgarize the subject," and my intention here similarly is to address these complex historical and methodological issues in a way that might enlighten readers with little experience in the academic study of American literature, while still providing a sufficiently rounded view of these multifaceted matters to provoke interest in readers for whom the broad outlines of these debates will be more familiar"--

American literature --- American literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literatur. --- Weltliteratur. --- History and criticism. --- USA.

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El debate en torno al concepto de literatura mundial acompaña el proceso de reconfiguración del diseño global desde la Caída del Muro de Berlín y el desmantelamiento del orden bipolar en adelante. Las literaturas nacionales e incluso los constructos regionales están, desde entonces, en crisis. Fórmulas teóricas divergentes y también complementarias buscan resituar las literaturas latinoamericanas en dinámicas globales y superar, así, los marcos que se han revelado como obsoletos. En discusión con postulados idealistas y normativos, De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial propone un examen de las condiciones materiales, procesos y actores que hoy permiten -o impiden- que la literatura latinoamericana entre en circulación internacional y devenga literatura (latinoamericana) mundial. En un segundo momento, bajo la premisa de que las instancias de mediación dejan "huellas", el estudio se aparta de la sociología de la literatura para examinar de cerca configuraciones textuales. Intenta, finalmente y en respuesta al énfasis en la circulación de ciertos modelos hegemónicos, otorgarle visibilidad -y valor como literatura del mundo- a expresiones que permanecen inscriptas en dominios locales. What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate internationally and become (Latin-American) World Literature? Exploring the tension between literature for and of the world, the volume also intend to give visibility-and value as World Literature- to local forms of expression.

Latin American literature --- Literature and globalization. --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Globalization and literature --- Globalization --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Anagrama. --- Buchmarkt. --- Editorial Policies. --- Literary Market. --- Verlagspolitik. --- Weltliteratur. --- World Literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American.