Literary Geography and Comparative Literature

In his article "Literary Geography and Comparative Literature" Cesar Dominguez analyzes the relevance of political and linguistic frameworks for comparative literary historiography in the context of the European Union. Dominguez's discussion is based on the notion of geoculture whose theorization from Immanuel Wallerstein's perspective presents paradigms of interest to comparative literature. The idea of literary geography is conceived as a unit for analyzing diverse stages of the interliterary process. Thus, within the framework of the current renaissance of Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur, the phenomena of the literatures of (im) migration, exile, and literary diglossia represent challenges for the contextualization and writing of literary history comparatively.