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40 - Transregional Critique and the Challenge of Comparison: Between Latin America and China

from Part VIII - Modes of Reading and Circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2021

By
Andrea Bachner
Edited by
Debjani Ganguly
Debjani Ganguly
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

In spite of their long history of contact, exchange, and dialogue, Chinese and Latin American cultures constitute a challenge for comparative, transregional, and world-literary thought. By drawing on examples of literary and cultural contact between these two cultures that emerge through a closer look at the 1965 novel Farabeuf by Mexican writer Salvador Elizondo, this chapter will diagnose some of the challenges of comparative, relational, and world-literary methods. It models a transregional critique as a multi-scalar, poly-comparative approach to thinking about shared literary and cultural worlds: as histories marked by Orientalist fantasies, networks of literary circulation, translation, and influence, as well as by the challenges of literary worlding in the face of global power dynamics.

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cartographycomparisonrelations between China and Latin AmericaSalvador Elizondo’s Farabeuftransregional critique
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The Cambridge History of World Literature , pp. 789 - 803
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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