Literary Landscapes of Time

Ahead of Publication Published by De Gruyter 2022

Literary Landscapes of Time

Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in (Latin) American and Caribbean Literatures

Edited by: Jobst Welge and Juliane Tauchnitz

Volume 15 in the series Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo

Overview

About this book

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form.

The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to foster the dialogue between the study of Latin/American and Caribbean literatures—in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Therefore, the individual essays are not grouped according to geographical or linguistic areas, but follow a trajectory from spatiotemporal constellations of the 19^th century to ruined/catastrophic landscapes and the geopoetic inscriptions of time in regions. The essays should appeal to all readers interested in World Literature, Hemispheric Studies as well as temporal approaches to space and geography.

Author information

Jobst Welge and Juliane Tauchnitz, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (literary and cultural studies, Latin American studies)
Pages
- Main content: 300
Keywords: world literature; geopoetics; spatial studies; landscape

eBook

Planned Publication: August 29, 2022
ISBN: 9783110762273

Hardcover

Planned Publication: September 12, 2022
ISBN: 9783110762266