Collaborative historiography: a comparative literary history of Latin America

Permission to reproduce this material was obtained by the original publisher, the American Council of Learned Societies. Please contact them directly for reproduction permission.This pamphlet outlines the purpose and methodology of a five-year project on comparative Latin American literary history entitled _Latin American Literatures: A History of Cultural Formations_. The author explains that the idea was to "construct a history without closure, one that can be entered through many points and can unfold through many coherent, informed, and focused narrative lines." She details the guiding concept of the project; that this litarary history is not a monolithic entity but rather a collection of histories and interpretations that situate themselves within the broad contexts of socio-politics and contemporary critical theories