Perspectivizing World Literature

A special session of the 128th MLA Annual Convention

Basic information

January 6, 2013 at 10:15 to January 6, 2013 at 11:30
Boston (Hynes, 202)
Organizer: Modern Language Association

Description

As a glocalized network, world literature has been produced, disseminated, perceived, used, and canonized through multiple geocultural perspectives. How were particular literary practices (imperial, metropolitan, peripheral, or transnational) positioned and circulated in the asymmetrical system of world literature? How do we study literature’s globalism from a truly comparative perspective?

Presiding: Marko Juvan, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Acad. of Sciences and Arts

Speakers: David Damrosch, Harvard Univ.; Theo L. D’haen, Leuven Univ.; Jeanne E. Glesener, Univ. of Luxembourg; Kristine Kotecki, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Sowon S. Park, Univ. of Oxford, Corpus Christi Coll.; Galin Tihanov, Univ. of London; Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Purdue Univ. Press

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