ABSTRACT
This chapter traverses the idea of ‘anti-world literature’, a set of formal and ideological stances against the axioms and ideologies of world literature theories and practices. Mexico’s necropolitical neoliberalism opens a space to think – and to formalise – writing practices against the grain of both globalisation and mundializacion. The chapter engages with a Heideggerian trend of rendering the world in world literature from the idea of ‘world-making’, an updating of the Saidian notion of worldliness as experience, even if it is not always recognised as such. It rehearses a critical reading of the idea of the world in world literature as posited by recent theorists like Eric Hayot, Pheng Cheah and Debjani Ganguly, who put forward versions of a concept of ‘world-making’ to challenge the spatial core of institutionalist world-literature theories. The chapter brings to the table Sayak Valencia’s idea of ‘gore capitalism’ and Cristina Rivera Garza’s theories of ‘necrowriting’ and ‘disappropriation’.
