Central American Literatures as World Literature

Sophie Esch is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Rice University, USA, with specialization in Central American, Mexican, and comparative literature. She is author of an award-winning book, Modernity at Gunpoint (2018), and has edited a special dossier on Central American literature for one of the premier journals of her field: “Passages: Routes of Migration and Memory in Central American Literature,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 54 no. 1.

Introduction
Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA)

Part I. Modes
1. Reorienting the World: Reading Maya Literatures through Xocom Balumil
Rita M. Palacios (Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada) and Paul M. Worley (Western Carolina University, USA)
2. World Literature in Minor Key: The Central American Short Story
Sophie Esch (Rice University, USA) and Ignacio Sarmiento Panez (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA)
3. Central American Testimonio as World Literature: English Translation and the Canonization of a Genre
Tamara Inés de Antón (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
4. When Does Central American Literature Become Global?: The Extraordinary (or Predictable?) Case of Eduardo Halfon
Magdalena Perkowska (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)

Part II. Constellations
5. Cosmopolitanism and Disillusion in Rubén Darío
Carlos F. Grigsby (University of Cologne, Germany)
6. Álvaro Menen Desleal’s Speculative Planetary Imagination
Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University, USA)
7. Between Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Roque Dalton and World Literature
Yansi Pérez (Carleton College, USA)
8. Rewriting the Militant Left: Untranslatability and Dissensus in Horacio Castellanos Moya
Tamara L. Mitchell (University of British Columbia, Canada)
9. Humberto Ak'abal's Pluri-verses: Indigeneity, Cosmolectics, and World Literature
Gloria E. Chacón (UC Santa Cruz, USA)

Part III. Routes
10. Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond, and Sevens at the "Suction Sea"
Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University, USA)
11. Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought, and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness
Tatiana Argüello (Texas Christian University, USA)
12. US Central Americans Writing Global South Spaces
Andrew Bentley (University of Indiana Bloomington, USA)
13. Caravaneros as Citizens of the World
Robert McKee Irwin (University of California Davis, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index