👤Author Name: Sylvia GARCIA-PALUROAffiliation: University of Houston, USAContact: sgarcia3@uh.edu 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Garcia-Paluro, Sylvia. ‟Proximity and Dis/placement. Interrogating Space in Roza Tumba Quema by Claudia Hernández and Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García”. Synthesis, 3 / 2024: 50-67.Pages: 50-76Language: EnglishURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2024/3/3_Garcia-Paluro.pdf Abstract Recent Latin American history (I refer approximately to the period between 1950 and 1990) has had a significant influence on the literature produced by writers in Latin America and abroad since 1950. Even books published within the last fifteen years show a preoccupation with this historical period, such as Claudia Hernández’s Roza tumba quema (published in Spanish in 2017 and in English in 2020 [Slash and Burn]), which makes the Salvadoran Civil War its central event. Books published by Latinx writers in the United States show similar concerns, though they must also contend with the role diaspora has played in shaping how these events are understood or processed. What role, then, do proximity and placement (or displacement) play in shaping the relationship of writers to a history that still impacts Latin American politics and U.S. immigration policy? This paper aims to address this question by comparing the two post-war novels, Roza tumba quema and Dreaming in Cuban, a diasporic novel by Cristina García, and their relationship to space….

👤Author Name: Anthony TELLOAffiliation: : Rutgers University, USAContact: art153@english.rutgers.edu 📄Article Citation Recommendation: Tello, Anthony. “The Literary Machine”. The Victorian Case for World Literature”. Synthesis, 3 / 2024: 7-24Pages: 7-24Language: EnglishURL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2024/3/1_Tello.pdf Abstract Victorian Literature as World (building) Literature grants a privileged view of the often-violent linkages across space and time characteristic of empire and its aftermath, as well as the struggle to create new worlds out of it. Expanding Pheng Cheah’s conception of World Literature, I argue that Victorian Literature not only world-ed extractive capitalism, which came to dominate the globe, but simultaneously attempted to re-world alternatives through characterization and the realist mode. Indeed, many Victorian characters were themselves deeply critical of and unsatisfied with the world-system of capitalist extraction being created. The novels I choose to focus on, George Gissing’s New Grub Street and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, support this claim by demonstrating critiques and resonances in their attempts to expose and break free from the extractive capitalist constraints of the imperial and neo-imperial period, making both an archive to study the conflicts entailed in the ongoing process of worlding extractive capitalism. Thus, I will claim a space for the study of the 19th Century as mid-wife to globalized extractive capitalism that links,…