Juan E. De Castro is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He is the author of Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño and Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui, among other works.

• IntroductionHarold Bloom in the Hispanic World: From Classic to CanonSpanish American Women Writers and Western Literature: On Gabriela Mistral, Sor Juana, and OthersBorges and the CanonRewriting Kafka in Spanish AmericaGabo's Canon: Gabriel García Márquez and the World CanonRoberto Bolaño on/in the CanonIndigenous Authors and the WestEpilogue

"A superbly written and effectively organized book that defines an innovative scholarly project and represents a timely contribution to the current debates on world literature. Conducted through the lens of canon and canonicity, it underscores the indispensable role of literary history for grasping the complexity and contradictions of canon formation. It reframes the histories of western canon in order to call attention to the foundational contributions of Latin American writers such as Borges, García Márquez, and Bolaño. It carries out a superb analysis of the specific cultural and political iconography developed through the writings of these authors as well as contemporary Indigenous intellectuals from Guatemala and Perú."—Gorica Majstorovic, author of Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America

Juan E. De Castro is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He is the author of Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño and Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui, among other works.

• IntroductionHarold Bloom in the Hispanic World: From Classic to CanonSpanish American Women Writers and Western Literature: On Gabriela Mistral, Sor Juana, and OthersBorges and the CanonRewriting Kafka in Spanish AmericaGabo's Canon: Gabriel García Márquez and the World CanonRoberto Bolaño on/in the CanonIndigenous Authors and the WestEpilogue

"A superbly written and effectively organized book that defines an innovative scholarly project and represents a timely contribution to the current debates on world literature. Conducted through the lens of canon and canonicity, it underscores the indispensable role of literary history for grasping the complexity and contradictions of canon formation. It reframes the histories of western canon in order to call attention to the foundational contributions of Latin American writers such as Borges, García Márquez, and Bolaño. It carries out a superb analysis of the specific cultural and political iconography developed through the writings of these authors as well as contemporary Indigenous intellectuals from Guatemala and Perú."—Gorica Majstorovic, author of Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America

Juan E. De Castro is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He is the author of Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño and Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui, among other works.

• IntroductionHarold Bloom in the Hispanic World: From Classic to CanonSpanish American Women Writers and Western Literature: On Gabriela Mistral, Sor Juana, and OthersBorges and the CanonRewriting Kafka in Spanish AmericaGabo's Canon: Gabriel García Márquez and the World CanonRoberto Bolaño on/in the CanonIndigenous Authors and the WestEpilogue

"A superbly written and effectively organized book that defines an innovative scholarly project and represents a timely contribution to the current debates on world literature. Conducted through the lens of canon and canonicity, it underscores the indispensable role of literary history for grasping the complexity and contradictions of canon formation. It reframes the histories of western canon in order to call attention to the foundational contributions of Latin American writers such as Borges, García Márquez, and Bolaño. It carries out a superb analysis of the specific cultural and political iconography developed through the writings of these authors as well as contemporary Indigenous intellectuals from Guatemala and Perú."—Gorica Majstorovic, author of Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America