Post-Global Aesthetics: World Creation and Exhaustion in 21st Century Latin American Literatures

新冠肺炎疫情、气候变化、全球政治民粹主义浪潮等现象表明，全球化加速发展的最新阶段已经结束。需要新的类别和概念，以便对全球项目的这种耗尽作出反应，同时设计替代的全球模式和想法。该项目的目的是在“后全球化”的旗帜下，调查这些高度热门的反应在其美学和物质表现上的表现。“后全球化”指的是一个批判性的应对框架，它帮助我们理解当前全球化阶段的问题层面，同时寻找新的世界创造形式--包括特别是在文学方面。这些回应特别涉及围绕人类世叙事、地理学、数字革命以及流行病现实和小说的生态问题，我们打算在它们的相互关联性中进行调查。这个项目直接建立在我的ERC Consolidator Grant项目的结果基础上，该项目调查了直到千年之交的时期。这个新项目的前提是，特别是自2008年金融和经济危机以来，拉丁美洲的文学创作经历了疲惫和创作之间的波动动态，开创了全球后全球美学的先河。作为一个地区性的经验领域，拉丁美洲是(后)全球不一致的典范：那里的作家比其他任何地方都更多地对全球化进程的不对称性做出回应，这些作品通过与西方市场和叙事形式的密切联系在全球范围内传播。该项目在两个分项目中从不同的角度处理这些现象。第一个子项目考察后全球美学的文学形式语言，并询问全球化的新想象。在第二个子项目中，物质视角是决定性的。后全球化拉美文学作品精选如何流传？在后全球化时代，世界文学是如何创造的？

Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and the global surge of political populism have demonstrated that the most recent phase of accelerated globalization is over. New categories and concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project while devising alternative models and ideas of globality. The project aims to investigate these highly topical responses in their aesthetic and material manifestations under a “post-global” banner. “Post-globality” denotes a critical response framework that helps us understand the problematic dimensions of this current phase of globalization while seeking out new forms of world creation—including and especially in literature. These responses particularly relate to ecological issues around Anthropocene narratives, geopoetics, the digital revolution, and epidemic realities and fictions, which we intend to investigate in their interconnectedness.This project builds directly on the results of my ERC Consolidator Grant project “Reading Global,” which investigated the period up to the turn of the millennium. The new project adopts the premise that, especially since the 2008 financial and economic crisis, Latin American literary production has experienced a fluctuating dynamic between exhaustion and creation that is pioneering post-global aesthetics around the planet. As a regional sphere of experience, Latin America is paradigmatic of the inconsistencies of the (post-)global: Authors there, more than anywhere else, have been responding to the asymmetries of globalization processes in works of literature that enjoy worldwide circulation via strong connections to Western markets and narrative forms. The project approaches these phenomena from different perspectives in two sub-projects. The first sub-project examines the literary formal language of post-global aesthetics and asks about new imaginaries of globality. In the second sub-project, a material perspective is decisive. How do selected works of post-global Latin American literatures circulate? How is world literature created in a post-global era?