Symbolism 17: Latina/o Literature : The Trans-Atlantic and the Trans-American in Dialogue / Rüdiger Ahrens, Klaus Stierstorfer, Florian Kläger.

Frontmatter -- Foreword from the Editors / Ahrens, Rüdiger / Kläger, Florian / Stierstorfer, Klaus -- Table of Contents -- Special Focus: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue -- Introduction: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue / García, Patricia Marie / González, John Morán -- I. Trans-American Subjectivities: The Critical Aesthetics of Migration and Trans-Migration -- A Central American Wound: Remapping the U.S. Borderlands in Oscar Martinez's The Beast / Cárdenas, Maritza -- The Undocumented Subjects of el Hueco: Theorizing a Colombian Metaphor for Migration / Vargas, Jennifer Harford -- Toxicity and the Politics of Narration: Imagining Social and Environmental Justice in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper / Vázquez, David J. -- II. Intersticies: Translation, Transculturation, and the Trans-Atlantic -- Latina/o Literature Goes German / Rohrleitner, Marion -- Rerouting the Rise: Upward Mobility in Junot Díaz's Fiction / Román, Elda María -- "The Emotional Residue of an Unnatural Boundary": Brownsville and the Borders of Mental Health / Minich, Julie Avril -- Between Molds and Models: Female Identities in Almudena Grandes's Models of Women and Roberta Fernández's Intaglio / Giménez-Rico, Isabel Durán -- III. Writing the Borderlands of Culture: Interviews with Latina/o Authors -- The Once and Future Chicano - World Literatures Between Intra-History and Utopian Vision: An Interview with Alejandro Morales / Schreiner, Daniel -- The "I" Before the Border: An Interview with Reyna Grande / García, Patricia M. -- "Where I Find Poetry and Tension": An Interview with Daniel José Older / Irizarry, Ylce -- General Section -- Typeface Teutonicus: The Socio-Semiotics of German Typography Before 1919 / Shanley, Brett -- Parenthetical Embodiment and the Posthuman Body in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse / Kaminsky, Inbar -- Monument Narratives in Recent Anglophone Fiction / Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara -- Book Reviews -- Index

The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars address questions of the transculturation, translation, and reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe. In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.

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In English.

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