The Challenge of Caribbean Literatures to University Education in the Digital Era

Abstract

Latin American literary studies are experiencing inevitable changes produced by digital transformation and generative artificial intelligence. One problem that intersects several of these changes is the imbalance between the impact of technological advances in recent years on the production and circulation of literature and their lack of visibility in university programs. First, I identify some recent means of circulation and dissemination of Latin American literature in digital environments, with special attention to Caribbean literatures, since in this case, the randomness characteristic of networks renews traditional ways of experiencing these practices. Second, I describe features of these circuits that promote reading experiences limited to brevity, multimodality, and fragmentation. The conciseness and fleeting nature of these forms would connect practices as diverse as excerpts intended for mass cultural consumption, avant-garde experiments, and current hyperlinks. Finally, I present some indications of the changes that are coming in the formation of teaching and research corpora on Latin American literatures, especially Caribbean ones.