Central American Literatures as World Literature : Bloomsbury Academic : 9781501391873 : 1501391879 : 02 Nov 2023 : A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways by exploring texts and writers that go beyond or against the confines of the nation-state. Both within Latin American literary and world literary production, Central American literature is often perceived as a marginal space. This collection seeks to challenge this notion and to position and discuss Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature. 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, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery