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

新冠肺炎疫情、气候变化、全球政治民粹主义抬头等现象表明，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，以便在设计替代性全球模式和理念的同时，对全球项目的这种枯竭作出反应。该项目旨在在“后全球”的旗帜下，研究这些高度热门的美学和材料表现。“后全球化”指的是一个批判性的回应框架，它帮助我们理解当前全球化阶段的问题维度，同时寻求世界创造的新形式——包括，尤其是在文学中。这些回应特别涉及围绕人类世叙事、地学、数字革命和流行病现实与虚构的生态问题，我们打算调查它们之间的相互联系。这个项目直接建立在我的ERC整合者资助项目“阅读全球”的结果之上，该项目调查了直到千禧年的时期。新项目采用的前提是，特别是自2008年金融和经济危机以来，拉丁美洲文学生产经历了在枯竭和创造之间波动的动态，这是全球范围内开创性的后全球美学。作为一个区域经验领域，拉丁美洲是（后）全球不一致性的典范：那里的作家，比其他任何地方的作家，都更能通过与西方市场和叙事形式的紧密联系，在文学作品中对全球化进程的不对称性做出回应。本项目在两个子项目中从不同的角度探讨这些现象。第一个子项目考察了后全球美学的文学形式语言，并询问了对全球的新想象。在第二个子项目中，材料视角是决定性的。后全球化的拉丁美洲文学选集是如何流传的？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?