Literature on the Move formulates a new aesthetics for the altered conditions and challenges of the new century. The point of departure for examining a bordercrossing literature on the move is travel literature, from which the view opens up unto other spaces, dimensions and patterns of movement which will shape the literatures of the 21th Century. And these will become - one needs no prophetic gift to see - for a major part literatures with no fixed abode. Signposts of this journey through literature proposed by this book are texts by, among many others, Balzac, Barthes, Baudrillard, Borges, Calvino, Condé, Cohen, Diderot, Goethe, A.v. Humboldt, Kristeva, Reyes, Rodó or Stadler. This book will specially appeal to an audience interested by comparative literature, literary theory, and travel literature and will be of interest to anybody who delights in «literary journeys».
Signposts
One Parcours
Mapping a world on the move
Two Traverse
From the surfacing of America to the disappearing of Europe
Three Passage
Eye, ear and the place of writing
Four Passage
Writing in modernity
Five Traverse
From the modern narrative space to the Orbis Tertius
Six Passage
Proteus in Uruguay
Seven Passage
Iphigenia in Mexico
Eight Traverse
Avant-garde, Post-avant-garde, Postmodernism
Nine Passage
The world inside the head
Ten Passage
On the swing
Eleven Passage as Traverse
Crossing the mangroves
Twelve Return
How the New World appeared in the Old and became in the New the Old World
Short selected bibliography
Index of names