Digital Geographies: Illuminating Spatial Relationships in a Collection of Literary Blogs

In this article, I study the collection of literary blogs in Spanish that composes Elboomeran(g), a vast literary blog of more than ten years and twenty bloggers. Employing both distant and close readings, I argue that the content of the blogs reveals two important components of transnational aesthetics: first, at the level of poetics, we continue to observe textual tendencies that move away from the themes and spaces associated with national experience, and the same softening of national borders that is evident in contemporary Latin American writing. Second, the online terrain forces us to question the relationship between space and national belonging because it serves as an arena for post-national reader engagement based on language territories. Both aspects are central to furthering scholarship on digital writing and the way it operates within the broader framework of trans-nationalism. In the present work, I consider to what extent we can include virtual spaces as a variants of extra-nationalism, given that they continue to be contested on a national level.