Literary Landscapes of Time : : Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures / / ed. by Jobst Welge, Juliane Tauchnitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Brandellero, Sara,; Brüske, Anne,; Burnautzki, Sarah,; Dünne, Jörg,; Fonseca, Carlos,; Jörngården, Anna,; Kullberg, Christina,; Lay Brander, Miriam,; Müller, Gesine,; Pilar Blanco, María del,; Tauchnitz, Juliane,; Welge, Jobst,
• HerausgeberIn: Tauchnitz, Juliane,; Welge, Jobst,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo , 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 201 p.)

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 19th 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- “Children, Butterflies, and Latin American Literary Landscapes.” Introductional Essay -- Introduction -- I Locations and Spatiotemporal Constellations: Lives, Literary Fields -- Spatial Dynamics and Colonial Positioning in Nineteenth-Century Spanish- and French-Language Caribbean Literatures -- Dissolution of Time and Space in Memórias postumas de Brás Cubas -- Recreating the World of the Cuban Revolution: Geopolitical Imagination and Entangled Spaces in the Graphic Memoir Adiós mi Habana (2017) -- II Literary Landscapes and Temporalities: Regions and World(s) -- Timescapes of the Desert: Multiple Temporalities in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão -- Tropical Temporalities: Literary Landscape and Multiple Times in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos -- The Whims of the Climate: Landscapes of Deep Time in Juan José Saer’s Las Nubes -- III Specters, Ruins, Catastrophes -- The Landscape in Ruins -- Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature -- Prisons, Ruins, Bodies, and the Extension of Space and Time in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Un dimanche au cachot -- Whirlwinds of Sounds: Rethinking Hurricane Temporalities through Contemporary Poetry from the Lesser Antilles -- Night-time Mobilities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Spectralities in the 24-hour City and the Case of Burning Night (2019)