German Romanticism and Latin America: new co-edited volume from Dr Joanna Neilly

Dr Joanna Neilly has co-edited a new book that brings an innovative critical lens to the links between Romantic-era Germany and Latin American literature and culture. Co-edited with Jenny Haase of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, German Romanticism and Latin America: New Connections in World Literature contains 11 chapters that examine both the initial German Romantic reception of Latin American Culture and the various ways in which contemporary Latin American fiction resists, responds to, and reinvents the German Romantic tradition.

The book opens up a fruitful new arena for interdisciplinary and intercultural discourse by inviting fresh scholarship and engagement with an underexamined aspect of Latin American literature and uncovering the entangled and enduring postcolonial relationship between German Romanticism, Latin American culture, and the literary market. The authors examine what they call ‘a sub-field of world literature that transcends linguistic, temporal and spatial borders’*, shedding light on the ways in which a critical reworking of the formal features of German Romanticism within Latin American culture are at once an act of resistance and subversion.