Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1.Geoculture, Solidarity, and Textual Politics in East and West German Writings about Latin America -- Comparative and interdisciplinary contexts -- Literature and politics in divided Germany -- Material and rhetorical contexts for imagining Latin America -- Theoretical contexts: the emergence of Cold War transnationalisms, postcolonial studies, and area studies -- Imagining the Third World in German cultural studies -- Verdichtung and the emergence of aesthetic solidarity -- Chapter 2. The Translator's Ghosts: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Latin American Compromiso in Kursbuch and The Habana Inquiry -- Charting a new course for literature -- Common places -- The Habana Inquiry -- Translating genre: testimonio in conversation with a resurgent documentarism -- Counterrevolutionary zones of equivalence -- Refusing to translate -- Translating cultural concepts -- Translating discursive systems -- Translation and comparison -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Alternative Internationalisms and Literary Historical Inversions: Volker Braun's Guevara or the Sun State -- State solidarity and humanist patrimony -- Expressionist redux: the New Man and the production of socialism in Volker Braun -- Productive contradictions with Latin American Marxisms -- Transcontextual interruptions -- Unforgettable guerrillera -- Authoring the New Man -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4. The Task of Decolonial Thinking: Second World Authorship in Heiner Müller's The Task -- The theaterbody and its subjects -- Latin America and the Caribbean at the intersection of revolutionary histories -- Commentary and relational reading -- The Second World intellectual and writing from the middle -- Chapter 5. A Rhetoric of Walking Around: F.C. Delius's Adenauerplatz -- A new political realism?.

From trope to rhetoric, from internationalist to transnational antifascist solidarities -- "Hinter dem Faschismus steckt das Kapital…" -- Transnational walking around and the globalization of fascist memories -- Solidary sentiments -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6.The Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity -- Aesthetics, solidarity, and the political -- Limits -- Appendix. "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, with a translation by Donald D. Walsh -- Archival Collections -- Works Cited -- Index.