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Multilingual locals significant geographies a new approach to world literature
World literature is literature that circulates globally. It is mostly in English. Its main genre is the novel. These are caricatures of how World literature as a set of discourses is shaping the field of literary studies, but in f...
World literature is literature that circulates globally. It is mostly in English. Its main genre is the novel. These are caricatures of how World literature as a set of discourses is shaping the field of literary studies, but in fact Non-Western literatures are positioned with reference to a single global timeline and a single map, and translations supposedly ensure that worthy texts enter the global canon. What does not circulate globally is provincial, not good enough, not world literature.
This picture bears little resemblance to the multilingual world of literature, which consists not of a single map but of many significant geographies specific to language, group, and genre. By exploring the often fractured multilingual locals and significant geographies of literature in north India, Morocco, and Ethiopia—each with different experiences of literary multilingualism, colonial diglossia, and continuing oral traditions—we seek to establish a multilingual and located approach to world literature in place of meta-categories like global and world. Mindful of older histories and networks of literary multilingualism and critical of the monolingual straitjacket of modern literary histories that partition Anglophone and Francophone literature from Arabic, Amharic, and Hindi/Urdu, we focus on three periods: imperial consolidation, decolonization, and the current globalizing moment. We will study local transculturations, local debates on world literature, old and new forms of multilingualism, actors and technologies of print and orality, to highlight dynamics of appropriation rather than imitation, co-constitution rather than diffusion, and the multiplicity of choices and trajectories that together form local and transnational literary fields (world literature). The project will propose a theoretical approach, methods for multilingual training and research, and strategic dialogues with scholars and writers in Morocco, Ethiopia, India, UK and France.
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Duración del proyecto: 65 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2015-10-26
Fecha Fin: 2021-03-31
Fecha Fin: 2021-03-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2021-03-31
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-ADG-2014:
ERC Advanced Grant
Cerrada
hace 10 años
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
2M€
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SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL...
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Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
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