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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-, et al.
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Introduction : World Literature in the Making
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Ingår i: Institutions of World Literature. - London : Routledge. - 9781138832541 - 9781317565574 ; , s. 1-20
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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Tayeb Salih, Sol Plaatje and the Trajectories of World Literature
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Ingår i: The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 2052-2614 .- 2052-2622. ; 2:2, s. 253-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A crucial theoretical question in world literature studies concerns the dual trajectories of extroversion and introversion, and how they relate to or even are predicated on each other. By discussing the examples of Tayeb Salih and, in particular, Sol Plaatje, this article tries to demonstrate that although the current turn towardmore “introverted” literary studies can be seen as justifiably critical of single-system modes of world literature theory, an attentiveness to the combined and contradictory trajectories of extroversion and introversion will enable a more situated and localized form of world literature studies that nonetheless evades the risk of reifying nationalor linguistic provenance. This also requires a stronger conception of reception history not as a transparent vessel for the literary object, but as an active agent in rendering specific texts or authorships readable as introverted or extroverted.
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- Kullberg, Christina, 1973-, et al.
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Translingual Evants : World Literatures and the Making of Languages
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Ingår i: Journal of World Literature. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 2405-6472 .- 2405-6480. ; 3:2, s. 136-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article outlines a theory of world literary reading that takes language and the making of boundaries between languages as its point of departure. A consequence of our discussion is that world literature can be explored as uneven translingual events that make linguistic tensions manifest either at the micro level of the individual text or at the macro level of publication and circulation—or both. Two case studies exemplify this. The first concerns an episode in the institutionalization of Shakespeare as a global canonical figure in 1916, with a specific focus on the South African writer Sol Plaatje’s Setswana contribution to A Book of Homage to Shakespeare. The second case discusses how Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones (1998) evokes the bodily and affective charge of boundary-making by troubling the border between Haitian and Dominican speech.
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World Literatures : Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange
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- Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange.As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been identified as a weakness of the world literature paradigm, namely the one-sided focus on literature that accumulates global prestige or makes it on the Euro-American book market.How has the vernacular been defined historically? How is it inflected by gender? How are the poles of the vernacular and the cosmopolitan distributed spatially or stylistically in literary narratives? How are cosmopolitan domains of literature incorporated in local literary communities? What are the effects of translation on the encoding of vernacular and cosmopolitan values?Ranging across a dozen languages and literature from five continents, these are some of the questions that the contributions attempt to address.
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- Helgesson, Stefan, 1966-
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A Tale of Two Laureates : Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and the Swedish Press
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Ingår i: Journal of World Literature. - 2405-6472 .- 2405-6480. ; 9:1, s. 7-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Focusing on the reception of the two Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee,this article investigates the literature prize as a national, and indeed Stockholmbased,phenomenon in Sweden. It makes two general claims. The first is that the press exercises a co-consecrating authority that both rivals and depends on the authority of the Swedish Academy. This becomes evident not least in occasional attempts by critics to deconsecrate a laureate. The second claim is that the dramaturgy of the literatureprize, beginning with the announcement in October and ending with the award ceremony in December, culminates shortly before the ceremony with the Nobel lecture,when the laureate is heard in their own voice. In an analysis of Gordimer’s and Coetzee’s lectures, the article concludes that they present sharply different attempts at performatively resolving the tension between literary autonomy and heteronomy.
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