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Un extraordinario ensayo sobre literatura. En 2015 Javier Cercas ocupó en la Universidad de Oxford la cátedra Weidenfeld de Literatura Europea Comparada, honor en el que le habían precedido figuras como George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa o Umberto Eco; basándose en las conferencias allí impartidas, Cercas ha escrito un libro que posee la coherencia estructural y la voluntad estilística de una novela. En él realiza una triple y complementaria operación: * En primer lugar formula una originalísima teoría de la novela surgida de su propia experiencia de escritor y de la relectura de...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Los artículos reunidos en este volumen abarcan no sólo preguntas sobre la formación de una comunidad literaria a través de prácticas editoriales, de tradiciones y de definiciones de literatura, sino que también reflexionan sobre las estrategias para construir un repertorio temático.

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...