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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
  • Edited by Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of World Literature
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 789-803

  • 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.