Catalogue of art works selected from the more than 110 emerging artists from the region who participated in the 2nd Central American Exhibition of Emerging Art. Prized names included: Marcos Agudelo (Nicaragua, Canada, Video project, 2006), Miguel Fábrega (Panamá, Alicia en el país de las maravillas, painting, 2006) and Dios es Dior (digital photography, 2006), Marco Luque (Panamá, Control demográfico, digital prints, 2006), Celeste Ponce (Honduras) Ser piente / Es cooltura (intervened objects, 2006), Ángel Poyon (Guatemala), Área de traslado (drawings, 2006), Sandra Trejos (Costa Rica, Puerta de Brandemburgo: 60 años, digital photography, 2006) with special mentions for José Campos (Costa Rica, Stand modelo de la 1ra feria de las no-transnacionales, photo-installation, 2006), Eduardo Chang (El Salvador, Made in Chang, digital photography, 2006), Ana Urquilla (El Salvador, Quisiera dejar de comerme las uñas para ser más bonita y poder conseguir marido, photography, 2006), Francesco Bracci (Costa Rica, Balance y Contraste, intervention in the Municipal Park of La Sabana (metal & nylon, 2006).

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.

From the Holocaust in Europe to the military dictatorships of Latin America to the enduring violence of settler colonialism around the world, genocide has been a defining experience of far too many societies. In many cases, the damaging legacies of genocide lead to continued violence and social divisions for decades. In others, however, creative responses to this identity-based violence emerge from the grassroots, contributing to widespread social and political transformation. Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.

"... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." --Booklist "Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of Central America and Mexico's] past and present." --World Literature Today "Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." --Nicaragua Update "... a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." --Colonial Latin American Historical Review In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.