Jorge Joaquín Locane
Academic interests
Jorge J. Locane's research work focuses on contemporary Hispanic literature and cultures (20th and 21st centuries) and, particularly, on Latin America. In his research, he has addressed from different points of view how the current phase of globalization has affected literature and its modes of production. Based on an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on, among other things, urban studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of literature, he is particularly interested in the dialectic between the global and local orders. This line of research has led him to develop an interest in the international circulation of literature and translation from an approach that is attentive to the material conditions of production, the institutions, and gatekeepers. The reception areas to which he has devoted most attention are Germany (split into the GDR and the FRG) and China. His most recent research focuses precisely on the cultural relations between Latin America and China, above all in the context of the early Cold War until the Cultural Revolution. Other focuses are the relationship between literature and disease and glotopolitics. In addition to narrative, his objects of study include film and, in particular, poetry.
His teaching covers various genres, periods, and subregions within the Spanish-speaking world, with an emphasis on contemporary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction and literary theory. Professor Locane welcomes students and graduate applicants in all fields of modern Spanish-speaking literature and cultures, from the late 19th century to the present.
Background
Jorge J. Locane was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied literature, with a specialization in literary theory. In 2008 he moved to Berlin, where he obtained a master's degree in interdisciplinary Latin American studies and his Ph.D. with the dissertation Miradas locales en tiempos globales. Intervenciones literarias sobre la ciudad latinoamericana. His thesis was awarded the German prize ADLAF and published by Iberoamericana/Vervuert in 2016. From 2015 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project Reading Global. Constructions of World Literature and Latin America hosted by the University of Cologne. One result of this project is his second monograph De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial. Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores (De Gruyter 2019), which critically approaches the concept of world literature from a materialistic perspective. Between 2019 and 2020, Jorge J. Locane was part of GlobaLS - Global Literary Studies Research Group at the Open University of Catalonia. Since May 2020, he is an Associate Professor of Literature and Culture in the Spanish-speaking World at the University of Oslo.
Education
Ph.D. Literatures and Cultures of Latin America. Free University of Berlin.
M.A. Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies. Free University of Berlin.
BA/Licenciado en Letras. University of Buenos Aires.
Teaching
Fall 2020
Publications
Scholarly Monographs:
- De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial. Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
- Miradas locales en tiempos globales. Intervenciones literarias sobre la ciudad latinoamericana. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2016.
Reviews:
Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica 65:2 (2019): 423-426 <https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/dag/dag_a2019v65n2/dag_a2019v65n2p423.pdf>.
Revista de estudios hispánicos LII:3 (2018): 1024-1027 <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/713752/pdf>.
Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural 9 (2017): 558-560 <https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.9.10159>.
Scholarly Collections:
- with Gustavo Guerrero, Benjamin Loy & Gesine Müller. Literatura latinoamericana mundial. Dispositivos y disidencias. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
- with Daniel Nemrava. Experiencias límites en la ficción latinoamericana (literatura, cine y teatro). Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019.
- with Gesine Müller & Benjamin Loy. Re-mapping World Literature. Writing, Book Markets, and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
Review:
Letral. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Transatlánticos de Literatura 21 (2019): 278-282 <https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/letral/article/view/8620/7293>.
- with Gesine Müller. Poesía española en el mundo. Procesos de filtrado, selección y canonización. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017.
Reviews:
Romanische Forschungen 132 (2020): 242-246 <https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/rese%C3%B1as/138162_Romanische%20Forschungen%20132%20(2020).pdf>.
Piedras lunares. Revista giennense de literatura 2 (2018): 282 <https://www.dipujaen.es/export/files/dipujaen/revista-piedras-lunares/piedras-lunares-2.pdf>.
Dossiers:
- with Maria Montt Strabucchi. “El viaje América Latina-China. Una interacción sur-sur sui generis.” Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 9:3 (2020).
- with Irina Garbatzky. “Políticas de la poesía latinoamericana. Soportes y circulaciones disidentes.” El jardín de los poetas. Revista de teoría y crítica de poesía latinoamericana 8 (2019).
- “Crítica cultural y glotopolítica.” Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought 2:2 (2019).
- with Gesine Müller. “Traducciones y transiciones entre América Latina y la lectura global.” INTI: revista de literatura hispánica 87-88 (2018).
- “Poesía y artes plásticas.” Sala Grumo 45 (2016).
Articles and book chapters (selection):
- “Literatura comunista mundial. Jorge Amado en la República Democrática Alemana y China.” World Editors. Dynamics of Global Publishing and the Latin American Case between the Archive and the Digital Age. Eds. Gesine Müller, Benjamin Loy & Gustavo Guerrero. (forthcoming)
- “Poesía y economía política internacional. A propósito de Enrique Falcón y Sergio Raimondi.” Discursos del saber (y no saber) en la poesía española contemporánea. Eds. Javier Gómez-Montero & Frank Nagel. (forthcoming)
- “Las literaturas latinoamericanas del siglo XXI en el territorio de habla alemana. Un mapeo.” “Novísimas.” Las narrativas latinoamericanas y española del siglo 21. Ed. Ana Gallego Cuiñas. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2020. (forthcoming)
- “El santo de los santos del templo literario”. Acerca de Anagrama y su función consagratoria”. Letral. Revista Electrónica de Estudios Transatlánticos de Literatura 21 (2020): 39-54.
- “Contra el Tratado de Tordesillas. Del neocriollo al portunhol selvagem”, Dossier: “Lenguas imaginarias, glosolalias y ficciones lingüísticas.” Cuadernos LIRICO 24 (2020).
- “Del orientalismo a la provincialización de Europa. A propósito del viaje a los albores de la República Popular China.” Dossier: “El viaje América Latina-China. Una interacción sur-sur sui generis.” Eds. Jorge J. Locane & Maria Montt Strabucchi. Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 9:3 (2020): 56–73.
- with Maria Montt Strabucchi. “Cultura china y Capricornio. Dos proyectos pioneros para el comercio simbólico (y material) entre América Latina y China.” Dossier: “China: influences, debates and perspectives from the 1949 Revolution to the present.” Ed. Brenda Rupar. Revista Izquierdas 49 (2020): 2521–2544.
- “‘Los últimos centímetros de un lápiz de grafito’. Mercado, (neo)autonomía y la ‘operación Mike Wilson.’” Literatura latinoamericana mundial. Dispositivos y disidencias. Eds. Gustavo Guerrero, Jorge J. Locane, Benjamin Loy & Gesine Müller. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 305–318.
- “Dispersiones de la memoria, flujos y porosidades en la serie Manglares (1997, [2005], 2006, 2013), de Tomás González.” Cuadernos de literatura 23:46 (2019): 290–302.
- “World literature/liberal globalization. Notes for a materialistic metacritique of Weltliterary studies.” World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise. Eds. Gesine Müller & Mariano Siskind. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 101–110.
- “Memorias líquidas. A propósito de Los planetas, de Sergio Chejfec, y Los rubios, de Albertina Carri.” Experiencias límites en la ficción latinoamericana (literatura, cine y teatro). Eds. Daniel Nemrava & Jorge J. Locane. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019, 35–46.
- “Avatares de la fricción en el corpus Operación masacre, de Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Troxler y Jorge Cedrón.” La literatura argentina y el cine. El cine argentino y la literatura. Eds. Matthias Hausmann & Jörg Türschmann. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019, 327–342.
- “Sobre taitas y laberintos. La recepción internacional de Borges desde una perspectiva glotopolítica.” Dossier “Crítica glotopolítica.” Ed. Jorge J. Locane.Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought 2:2 (2019): 119–131.
- “Por una sociología de las ausencias en la literatura mundial.” Re-mapping World Literature. Writing, Book Markets, and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South. Eds. Gesine Müller, Jorge J. Locane & Benjamin Loy. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 189–198.
- “To bring a dead man to life: a propósito de algunas traducciones de Federico García Lorca.” Poesía española en el mundo. Procesos de filtrado, selección y canonización. Eds. Jorge J. Locane & Gesine Müller. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017, 103–112.
- “La mediación oculta: los agentes literarios en la producción de literatura ‘latinoamericana’ en Europa.” Iberoromania. Zeitschrift für die iberoromanischen Sprachen und Literaturen in Europa und Amerika 85 (2017): 47–57.
- “Interseccionalidad y polifonía. Para una aproximación a la narrativa de Luis Negrón.” Revista Iberoamericana 258:LXXXIII (2017): 31–39.
- “Disquisiciones en torno al portunhol selvagem. Del horror de los profesores a una ‘lengua pura.’” Perífrasis. Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica 6:12 (2015): 36–48.