Building (Un)Continuity in Latin American E-Lit

Building (Un)Continuity in Latin American E-Lit Panelists: Claudia Kozak, Rodolfo Mata, Leonardo Flores, Cecily Raynor Panel Description (Playlist) This panel is concerned with the narratives and genealogies that emerge when we collect, publish, and research Latin American electronic literature. To what extent do we disrupt established literary continuities in order to build new ones based on technological, artistic, political, media, and other cultural factors. And how are emergent e-literary traditions, perceived by or reinscribed in established literary and cultural networks? This bilingual panel has two papers in Spanish and two in English. Paper #1: LitElat Collection, vol. 1: An Overlook to Grasping (Un)Continuity in Electronic Literature (video, language: Spanish) Panelist: Claudia Kozak Institutional Affiliation: Professor - Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero/CONICET Email: ckozak@filo.uba.ar / claudkozak@gmail.com Description: The presentation aims to show how this specific Latin American and Caribbean collection of e-lit can be a good overview from which we can grasp continuities and un-continuities between located and delocated e-lit within globalization. Despite each work in this collection has participated within its own historic context in global trends of e-lit, and beyond being the criterion that defined the inclusion of works in the collection the national background of each artist/author, I will evaluate the kind of Latin American and Caribbean specificity of the e-lit represented here. My hypothesis is that many of these works explore a political sense of e-lit, not only regarding a thematic focus but recurring to linguistic and constructive politicization in relation to hegemonic senses of global techno-life. Paper #2: Decentering E-literary History (video, language: English) Panelist: Leonardo Flores Institutional Affiliation: Appalachian State University Email: floresll@appstate.edu Description: The history of electronic literature, while international in scope, has been conceptualized largely through privileged access and mass adoption of digital technologies in North American and European countries. When we anthologize electronic literature in Latin America and the Caribbean we must rethink our histories, genealogies, and narratives of influence. Electronic literature is also conceptualized generationally, which can result in particular conceptions to exert hegemonic control over works that are not North American, European, or part of the 2nd generation of electronic literature. This presentation will explore lines of continuity and (dis)continuity in histories of electronic literature, especially when considering how people discover, explore, and adopt electronic literature in different technological and national contexts. Paper #3: Latin American Electronic Literature: Native languages, Translation and Dialogue Forums (video, language: Spanish) Panelist: Rodolfo Mata Institutional Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Email: rmata194@gmail.com Description: For many years, several authors of electronic art or literature whose mother tongue is Spanish, Portuguese (the principal languages in Latin America regarding the number of speakers) or other languages spoken in Latin America, have seen themselves forced to produce and develop their works in English or to offer translations to this hegemonic language. Some of them even have their portfolios only in English or first in English and as a sideway option in their native languages. A mirrored situation is very rare if the original language is English or if it is another language as French, Italian or German, where the translation process stops when it reaches the lingua franca. For Latin Americans the opportunity to dialogue with other authors had language as a handicap and caused a discontinuity in the production of works in their native languages. The creation of a collection of Latin American and Caribbean e-literature works serves as a forum where this dialogue can have solid support. Paper #4 E-Lit and National Newspapers: Nation, Identity and Digital Literary Content in Chile and Argentina (video, language: English) Panelist: Cecily Raynor Institutional Affiliation: McGill University Email: cecily.raynor@mcgill.ca or cecily.raynor@gmail.com Description: The Arts and Letters section has long been an institution in Latin American newspapers - this is a place for authors’ work to be shared and to share opinions, for readers to come to get recommendations, analysis, commentary, insights - many different forms of literary content in one place. But how does this work online and how is this connected specifically to digitally born literature? What contradictions might emerge in these spaces, given their frequent link to canonical conceptions of literature? Finding and reading digital content is a process inflected by geographical location, search engines, keyword relevance, site rankings, paid advertising, and the seemingly infinite number of places a site visitor could read about literature. As newspapers adapt their formats and journalistic modes to an increasingly online readership, this presentation asks: how, from where, and with what intentions do people connect with digitally born literature on the websites of Chilean and Argentine newspapers? This presentation seeks also to address gaps and absences in electronic literature within national newspapers, and make predictions about future production.

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