Octavio Paz entre la literatura mundial y las literaturas del mundo
(pp. 51-63; DOI: 10.23692/iMex.19.3)

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Prof. Dr. Gesine Müller

Gesine Müller is Full Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Cologne. Her areas of research include literatures of French and Spanish Romanticism, Latin American contemporary literature and culture theory, literatures of the Caribbean, literary transfer processes and transcultural studies. She is director of the ERC-funded project “Reading Global: Constructions of World Literature and Latin America”. Her publications include Wie wird Weltliteratur gemacht? Globale Zirkulationen lateinamerikanischer Literaturen (De Gruyter 2020); Crossroads of Colonial Cultures. Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution (De Gruyter 2018); Die Boom-Autoren heute: García Márquez, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Donoso und ihr Abschied von den „großen identitätsstiftenden Entwürfen“ (Vervuert 2004). Current editions: with Gustavo Guerrero et al.: Literatura latinoamericana mundial. Dispositivos y disidencias (De Gruyter 2020); with Mariano Siskind: World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise (De Gruyter 2019).

The debate around the concept of world literature, held with new intensity in the last twenty years, is part, within the framework of cultural studies, of the controversies that are closely associated with issues related to global networks in a polycentric world. In view of this, this article would first of all like to open the field of tension between the concepts of world literature and literature of the world, with the purpose of developing differentiation criteria that will serve to illustrate the reception and canonization of the work of Octavio Paz, located in the middle of that field of tension.

El debate en torno al concepto de literatura mundial, sostenido con nueva intensidad en los últimos veinte años, forma parte, en el marco de los estudios culturales, de las controversias que están estrechamente asociadas a cuestiones relacionadas a las redes globales en un mundo policéntrico. En vista de ello, este artículo quisiera ante todo abrir el campo de tensión existente entre los conceptos de literatura mundial y literaturas del mundo, con el propósito de desarrollar criterios de diferenciación que servirán para ilustrar la recepción y canonización de la obra de Octavio Paz, situada en medio de ese campo de tensión.