Central American Literatures as World Literature

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 Ines de Anton (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 Ruben Dario
Carlos F. Grigsby (University of Cologne, Germany)
6. Alvaro Menen Desleal's Speculative Planetary Imagination
Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University, USA)
7. Between Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Roque Dalton and World Literature
Yansi Perez (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. Chacon (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 Argueello (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