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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique
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Ingår i: Johannesburg. - Durham : Duke University Press. ; , s. 259-270
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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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Literary Hybrids and the Circuits of Translation : The Example of Mia Couto
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Ingår i: Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. - London : Sage. - 9781412920858 ; , s. 215-224
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Translation is central to understanding how cultural expression travels and is transformed. While much critique of the globalization of literature focuses on the hegemony – and homogenizing tendencies – of English, a close comparative study of actual translations tells a different story. With the Mozambican writer Mia Couto’s work as its main example, the chapter shows how each translation may allow different meanings and emphases to emerge. Even Couto’s own writerly practice, with its hybridized language, can be read as a translation of sorts that addresses the consequences of an earlier globalization, i. e. colonialism. Hence, translation functions creatively and sometimes critically at many levels of a ‘globalized’ literature.
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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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Literary World-Making Under Apartheid : Staffrider and the Location of Print Culture
- 2018
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Ingår i: World Literatures. - Stockholm : Stockholm University Press. - 9789176350799 - 9789176350768 ; , s. 171-184
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the March 1979 issue of the South African literary journal Staffrider as its empirical case, this chapter demonstrates how the journal can be read as a world-making enterprise. Based in an Arendtian understanding of world-making as a collective and public human undertaking that is intended to persist through time, the analysis focuses on how Staffrider’s cultivatation of literary value harnessed formal, linguistic and canonical resources of a wider literary world for local and politically radical ends. Hence, properly accounting for its significance in the history of South African literature requires that we move beyond its immediate location and moment, and adopt a broader and deeper analytical framework that recognises the relative autonomony of literature as an aspect of its world-making capacity. In its generality, this may seem like a harmless claim, but its interest lies in how such a harnessing of resources is done – and also how this may adjust or even challenge the received South African understanding of Staffrider’s importance.
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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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"Literature", Theory from the South and the Case of the São Paulo School
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Ingår i: Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 2052-2614 .- 2052-2622. ; 5:2, s. 141-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With methodological support in Reinhart Koselleck’s notion of historical semantics, and an empirical focus on the Brazilian critic Antonio Candido (1918−2017), this article approaches “literature” as a layered concept that will always fail to function as that “plane of equivalence” that Aamir Mufti sees as an outcome of the Orientalist episteme. This failure is historical in the strongest sense; it derives from the condition that “history is never identical with its linguistic registration,” as Koselleck puts it. A concept will therefore, throughout its life span, always encompass a combination of persisting and new meanings. In this way, Candido and the São Paulo school of criticism that he was instrumental in forming can be read as a strong instance of “theory from the South” that exploits the malleability of the concept from within its historical situatedness and contributes thereby to the conceptual worlding of literature.
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