Tania Gentic Boeken

The book explores the interplay between nation, imperialism, and globalization through the lens of everyday writing, specifically focusing on newspaper chronicles and blogs from Spain and Latin America. It offers a fresh perspective on how these forms of media reflect and shape cultural and political identities in the context of contemporary societal changes. By analyzing these writings, the author reveals insights into the complexities of modern communication and its impact on national and global narratives.

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.