From the point of view of the transcendence of the Self into the Other, any literature is full of complex and dynamic encounters. In this sense, it seems possible to coin and merge two concepts – “Philology” and “Comparative literature” – into only one: “Literary Nations”. “Literary Nations” is a grammatical chiasmus based on “national literatures” but which defends a conception of literature as a transnational reading. Readers are aware of boundaries, but these are broken through the reading of texts (diverse in terms of languages, authors, traditions, countries, social classes, religions, genders) to allow for the understanding of the Other, in order to create a new, plural and diverse identity. In this sense, readers are born, through their readings, to a new Humanism which embraces the particular and the global. As we read we change, opening up to a new universe of identities beyond our own linguistic, social, political and geographical borders.

These approaches have resulted in outstanding works in the field of Pan-Hispanic literatures, as for example the volumes edited by A. Frank and H. Eβmann (The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America: Transfer and Transformation. Cases and Problems, 1999), an invitation to inter-American studies; the one by Mario Valdés and Linda Hutcheon (Rethinking Literary History, 2002), with new principles for literary stories; the one edited by Mario Valdés and Djielal Kadir (Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History, 2004), on the need to build diverse literary stories for the different Latin American cultures; the volume edited by David Gies (The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, 2004) which endorses new cultural approaches for the history of Spanish literature coming from emerging voices; and, lastly, the recent and extensive work compiled by Fernando Cabo, César Domínguez and Anxo Abuin (Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, 2010) on comparative histories for the Iberian Peninsula.

These scientific contributions will be evaluated from the critical perspective of what we will propose to call “Literary Nations”, a transnational and Pan-Hispanic concept only theoretically possible in a new digital paradigm for literature which deals with: 1.-The digital publication of literary texts 2.- The teaching of literature via the Internet, 3.- New critical contributions based on hypermedia theory, and 4.- New Hispanic literature written only for the Net. In short: New transliterary and hypermedia approaches for these times of global crisis.