Literature and the Work of Universality

book: Literature and the Work of Universality

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter 2024

Literature and the Work of Universality

Herausgegeben von: Alice Duhan , Stefan Helgesson , Christina Kullberg und Paul Tenngart

Band 5 der Reihe Beyond Universalism / Partager l’universel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111209159

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In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature – and modes of literary thinking – as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of the spectrum, world literature confronts us with the spectre of homogenisation and the commodification of difference under a regime of global capitalism, at another end renewed forms of philological, anthropological and ecological attentiveness to the particulars of languages and texts within the crucible of connected histories allow for defamiliarising perspectives both on received historical narratives and aesthetic practices. Vernacularity emerges here as a central point of reference for constructing the universal from within the particular, the idiomatic, and the experiences of social subordination or complicity.

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A. Duhan, S. Helgesson, Stockholm Univ.; C. Kullberg, Uppsala Univ.; P. Tenngart, Lund Univ., Sweden.

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	I
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	V
Introduction
The Fire This Time: Working with Universality Stefan Helgesson Open Access PDF downloaden	1
Part 1: Modes of Reading
The Singularity of Literary Production: Verma and Borges in London, 1976 Rosinka Chaudhuri Open Access PDF downloaden	21
Reading for Nobel and the Idea of the Universal Anders Olsson Open Access PDF downloaden	39
African Vernaculars and the Universal in Translation Moradewun Adejunmobi Open Access PDF downloaden	57
Multiple Vernacularizations Gang Zhou Open Access PDF downloaden	75
Part 2: Aesthetic Universalizations
(Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion and the Inscription of the Universal Remo Verdickt und Pieter Vermeulen Open Access PDF downloaden	97
Surface Listening: American Accents, African Agendas Tsitsi Jaji Open Access PDF downloaden	117
Circles of Change: Concrete Universality in the Aesthetics of Protest and Revolution Stefan Jonsson Open Access PDF downloaden	141
Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive Uhuru Portia Phalafala Open Access PDF downloaden	167
Part 3: The Human in and After Globalization
Peasant Modernism: World Literature and the Future of Agriculture Daniel Hartley Open Access PDF downloaden	191
Post-global Aesthetics in Latin America: Beyond Universality? Gesine Müller Open Access PDF downloaden	209
Overcoming the Cosmopolitanism–Vernacularism Opposition in Latin America: Juan Rulfo and the Nordic Countries; Juan L. Ortiz and China Jorge J. Locane Open Access PDF downloaden	229
Fashioning Universality in Literature: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La plus secrète mémoire des hommes Markus Messling Open Access PDF downloaden	245
Part 4: Planetary Universality
The Aesthetics of Global Realism: Scales, Models, Technology, Ecology Debjani Ganguly Open Access PDF downloaden	265
Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K Sarah Nuttall Open Access PDF downloaden	283
Amitav Ghosh and Twenty-First-Century World Literature: Climate Change and the Collective Imaginary Thomas Hylland Eriksen Open Access PDF downloaden	299
Whose World? Whose World Literature? Looking for Climate Fiction in China Adeline Johns-Putra, Xi Liu, Loredana Cesarino, Guohong Mai und Yue Zhou Open Access PDF downloaden	315
List of Contributors Open Access PDF downloaden	333
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	337

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2024
Zielgruppe: Scholars in literature, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, history.
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 7
- Inhalt: 343
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 7
Schlagworte: World literature; Translation; Cosmopolitan ethics; Eco-criticism

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Veröffentlicht: 22. Juli 2024
ISBN: 9783111209159

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Veröffentlicht: 22. Juli 2024
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