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  • Elisa Menéndez López Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.20244210721

Keywords:

Cosmopolitism, literary cartography, border, Nation-state, Historical Memory

Abstract

This article introduces the monograph "Worldless: Global Poetics of the Frontier Space". The volume brings together twelve articles that explore the idea of a contemporary cosmopolitanism without a world. Literature is presented as a key tool for exploring and representing new borders and subjective realities, challenging traditional notions of nation-state, identity, and sovereignty. The monographic index, conceived as a cartographic proposal, analyzes the spaces of El Segrià, Johannesburg, Debabarrena, Jaffa/Haifa, Berlin, Chernobyl, Paris, Mexico's northern border, London, Central Valley, and Lebanon, which disrupt the classifying epistemologies of the capitalist nation-state. The articles delve into how literature can offer new symbolic ways of understanding and visualizing the world, transcending the logic of center and periphery.

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Published

2024-07-09

How to Cite

Menéndez López, E. (2024). Presentation. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (42), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.20244210721

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