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World Literature in Motion : Institution, Recognition, Location / Flair Donglai Shi, Gareth Guangming Tan, Janet Wilson, Chris Ringrose, Rivkah Brown, Katelyn Edwards, Meleesha Bardolia, Gareth Guangming Tan, Carmen Thong, Lubabah Chowdhury, Sana Goyal, Anne-Marie E. McManus, Flair Donglai Shi, Rashi Rohatgi, Daniele Nunziata, Lucy Steeds, Galina Rousseva-Sokolova, Yan Jia, Wen-chin Ouyang, Yeogeun Kim, Peter McDonald, Michelle Kelly
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in world literature ; 7.
- Studies in World Literature 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Literature.
- Postcolonial Literary Institutions.
- Literary Prizes.
- Weltliteratur.
- Anglistik.
- Literatur Preise.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- Postcolonial Literary Institutions.
- Literary Prizes.
- Weltliteratur.
- Anglistik.
- Literatur Preise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hannover ibidem 2018
- Biography/History:
- Flair Donglai Shi (施东来) is a DPhil candidate in English at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on the Yellow Peril as a traveling discourse in modern Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. His research interests include postcolonial and queer theories, Victorian literature, and modern East Asian literatures. His articles have been published in many academic journals. Gareth Guangming Tan (陈光明) is a Researcher at the Asia Competitiveness Institute of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He holds a Master of Studies in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford. His research interests include postcolonial narratives in new media, narratology and ludology, and the intersections of the postcolonial and posthuman. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Oxford Research in English. His current projects include op-eds in Singapore's National newspaper, the Straits Times, and upcoming books on the competitiveness of sub-national economies in China and the Southeast Asian region.
- Summary:
- By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title “World Literature in Motion” highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Manifesto for Critical World Literature Studies
- Section 1: Postcolonial Institutions
- The Zimbabwe International Book Fair and the Idea of Book Development
- Athol Fugard as "Regional Writer": Oxford University Press, Three Crowns, and Three Port Elizabeth Plays
- The Politics of Censorship: The Making of The Penguin Book of South African Verse (1968)
- Penguin's People: The Information Research Department and British Publishing
- Section 2: Recognition through Prizes
- V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize for In a Free State
- Resituating the Author: Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize and the Rhetoric of Authenticity
- The Caine Prize for "African Writing": A Continental Reading and Rewarding
- The Failure of the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Politics of Recognition
- Section 3: Minor Locations
- Minor Literature, Minor Prizes: The Case of Mauritius
- Cypriot Literatures and the World: Language, Nationalism, and the bildungsroman, 1960-1974
- "The Page Becomes a Tape Recorder": The Development of an Oral Literary Aesthetic through Caribbean Radio
- Section 4: Translations beyond the Anglophone
- Making a World of Literary Relations: The Representation of Indian Literature in the Chinese Journal Yiwen/Shijie wenxue, 1953‐1962
- The Curious Case of Exotic Translations in the South‐East Balkans
- The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature
- Kuunmong in Translations: A Visual Linkage Between the Past and the Present
- Afterword
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgement.
- ISBN:
- 9783838271637
- 3838271637
- Publisher Number:
- 9783838271637
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