Central American Literatures as World Literature

<b>Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary production this collection positions and discusses Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature.</b><br/><br/>This groundbreaking volume draws on new scholarship on global transnational postcolonial translational and sociological perspectives on the region's literature expanding and challenging these debates by focusing on the heterogenous literatures of Central America and its diasporas. Contributors discuss poems <i>testimonios</i> novels and short stories in relation to center-periphery cosmopolitan and Internationalist paradigms. <br/> <br/><i>Central American Literatures as World Literature</i>explores the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state especially through the indigenous Black and migrant voices.