This course examines the 'worldliness' of texts - how they travelled across time, space, and language, often as a result of diasporas, political competition, empires, and peaceful exchange, often being repurposed for different local environments. It also looks at how they conceptualised ‘the world’ from multiple perspectives and subject positions (woman, colonised, indigenous, as well as normally dominant perspectives - male, politically powerful, Christian), thus participating in a process of worldmaking. Moving between the Iberian Peninsula, Colonial America, North Africa and the Middle East, it explores texts in a variety of languages (which may include Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Quechua) studied through English translations, thus decentring traditional euro-centric approaches to ‘Hispanic’ literature. In doing so, it uses the early Iberian worlds as a conceptual testing ground for ideas about 'World Literature', revealing how earlier literary cultures were already ‘global’.