Re-imagining language and literature for the 21st century : selected proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand from 19-23 August 2002 / edited by Suthira Duangsamosorn (et al.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Congress (22nd : 2002 : Assumption University)

Contributor:

Duangsamosorn, Suthira.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 49.

Textext ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages, Modern--Congresses.

Languages, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 28 essays selected from the proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, scholars and teachers of languages and literatures have noted, bemoaned and analyzed the waning influence of the humanities to varying degrees. They have raised questions, offered solutions and vigorously defended their languages and literatures, often in no uncertain terms - not as a politically correct thing to do, but as a human obligation. The papers presented here are true to the spirit of the Congress from the moment of the keynote address to what followed in a spontaneous outbreak of voices from scholars of more than 70 universities throughout the world. For the first time, in an international congress, scholars have described with great sensitivity many languages and literatures often considered the periphery, in a sincere attempt to understand 'the other', thus making a passionate plea for inclusion in the umbrella of the world's languages and literatures. With contributions by keynote speaker and authority on Comparative Literature Gayatri Spivak, USA and plenary speakers Vridhagiri Ganeshan, India; Roger Sell, Finland; Antoine Compagnon, France; and Chetana Nagavajara, Thailand this volume is of immense interest to scholars and teachers of languages and literatures the world over.

Contents:

Introduction

Bureau of FILLM 1999-2002 - Local Organizing Committee

Keynote Address

Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK: Commonwealth Literature and Comparative Literature

SUBTHEME 1: New Foundations: Grounding Language and Literature Studies in Ethics

Vridhagiri GANESHAN: Grounding Language and Literature Studies in Ethics or Altum Silentium

Anders PETTERSSON: The Possibility of Global Literary History

Edward P. VARGO: "I Am Not a Consumer, I Am a Learner:" Language and Literature in Lean and Mean Universities

H.P. van COLLER: The Medium of Teaching At South African Universities: the Position of Afrikaans

Piera CARROLI & Louise MAURER : Issues of Inclusion and Representation: Teaching Literature and Culture Across Art Forms

SUBTHEME 2: New Contexts: Facing Social Change in Language and Literature Studies

Roger D. SELL: Social Change and Scholarly Mediation

LIANG CHUA MORITA: Language Shift in the Thai Chinese Community

Esther V. SCHNEIDER HANDSHIN: History in Memory: Problems of Literary Representation of the Holocaust in the Writing of Ingeborg Bachmann, Barbara Honigmann and Ruth Schweikert

Sigfrid HOEFERT: German Naturalist Drama in Film: the Case of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber and Der Biberpelz

Sonia FAESSEL: Construction of A Cultural Identity in the Writings of Sia Figiel and Flora Devatine: the Case of The Girl in the Moon Circle (1996) and Tergiversations et rêveries de l'écriture orale (1998)

HO-BYEONG YOON: 'Language War' for the Survival of the Fittest in the Era of Multi-cultural Society: Perspectives of Korean Literary Circles for the Vision and Re-Vision

Edson Rosa da SILVA: La métamorphose de la littérature et de l'art selon André Malraux

SUBTHEME 3: New Instruments: Integrating Technology into Language and Literature Studies

Antoine COMPAGNON: A World Without Authors

Patrick IMBERT: Literature and Globalization: the Future of the Humanities

Meta GROSMAN: Literature Teaching As A Challenge

Suthira DUANGSAMOSORN: The Changing Form of Fiction: Narrative Technique in Chart Korbjitti's Time

Greg STRATTON & Donna CZEKALOWSKI: Journeys in Writing: Technology and Literature As the Art of Possibility

Maria Luisa ANTONAYA: A Revolutionary Medium: the World Wide Web in Peace Activism

SUBTHEME 4: New Communications: East Meets West Meets North Meets South

Chetana NAGAVAJARA: Contemporary Poetry As A Global Dialogue

Theo D'HAEN: Post/Modernist East

Cecilia HSUEH CHEN LIU: Writing Back to the Empire: From M. Butterfly to Madame Butterfly

Mithilesh K. PANDEY: Akademi-Awarded Novels in English: Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope

Carrie VILLENEUVE: S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights : A Lesson in Orchestration and Mastery of Language

Sushama KASBEKAR: A Comparison of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights

Hope SABAN-PAN YU: Representation in Philippine American Women Writers: Between Authenticity and Orientalism

Lindy STIEBEL: The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds (1986) Revisited in Post-apartheid Durban, 2001

Daniela HUREZANU: Roland Barthes et le Japon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0127-7

1-4237-9185-1

OCLC:

714568413

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201278 DOI