Editorial: Curating National Literatures

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Lucy Pearson ◽  
Karen Sands-O'Connor ◽  
Aishwarya Subramanian
Keyword(s):  
National Literatures

Boatmen, Wastrels, and Demons: Figures of Literature

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sawhney
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Sanskrit Text ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
National Literatures

Engaging some of the questions opened by Ranjan Ghosh's and J. Hillis Miller's book Thinking Literature Across Continents (2016), this essay begins by returning to Aijaz Ahmad's earlier invocation of World Literature as a project that, like the proletariat itself, must stand in an antithetical relation to the capitalism that produced it. It asks: is there an essential link between a certain idea of literature and a figure of the world? If we try to broach this link through Derrida's enigmatic and repeated reflections on the secret – a secret ‘shared’ by both literature and democracy – how would we grasp Derrida's insistence on the ‘Latinity’ of literature? The groundlessness of reading that we confront most vividly in our encounter with fictional texts is both intensified, and in a way, clarified, by new readings and questions posed by the emergence of new reading publics. The essay contends that rather than being taught as representatives of national literatures, literary texts in ‘World Literature’ courses should be read as sites where serious historical and political debates are staged – debates which, while being local, are the bearers of universal significance. Such readings can only take place if World Literature strengthens its connections with the disciplines Miller calls, in the book, Social Studies. Paying particular attention to the Hindi writer Premchand's last story ‘Kafan’, and a brief section from the Sanskrit text the Natyashastra, it argues that struggles over representation, over the staging of minoritised figures, are integral to fiction and precede the thinking of modern democracy.

Time for (a Reading) Community? The Border Literary Field(s) in the 1980s and 1990s

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Paul Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
National Literatures

This essay analyzes how, marginalized by national literatures and threatened by the rise of regional mass media in the 1980s and 1990s, northern Mexican border authors and their texts consistently concerned themselves with the temporalities of representation——particularly in literary narrative. Through their treatment of temporal issues, these writers directed themselves toward a local, transnational reading community and enacted a critical regionalism that articulates local signification within larger processes reshaping the role of literature in contemporary Latin America.

Literary discourse: theoretical and practical aspects

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
National Literatures

The monograph is aimed at analyzing the specific character of the literary discourse, which is viewed in theoretical and practical aspects. The volume thematically falls into five sections; each of them reveals particular items of the literary narrative. Special attention is paid to the literary approaches to discourse, its linguistic and translating perspectives, its realization in national literatures and usage in foreign language teaching. The issues researched by the authors of the book reflect the actual problems in the branch of literature, linguistics, translation studies, pedagogics and methodology, and represent the variants of their solution. The edition is mainly addressed to scholars, post-graduates and students engaged in the Humanities, and all those who are interested in peculiarities of literary discourse.

Mickiewicz. Poeta alternatyw

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogusław Dopart
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Open Universe ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
National Literatures ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

The title of the present monograph refers to one of the most fundamental traits of the oeuvre and literary life of Adam Mickiewicz. While constantly occupied with invigorating and broadening the subject- -matter of his works, Mickiewicz is careful to follow a steady track of ideas, concepts, and truths. In constructing successive models of poetic worlds and varying them even within single works, he incessantly integrates them into a dynamic, open universe of the ‘man of transformations’ (in Wacław Borowy’s phrasing) in accordance with the ontic position and experience of a Romantic writer. Diversity and variance of poetic forms in Mickiewicz is counterbalanced by his leaning towards regularity and structural connectedness: cycles. As early as his first critical manifesto, he opposes a schematic labeling of his creative output; he presents the history of European poetry in terms of overlapping traditions and gradual differentiation of national literatures.

scholarly journals Souboje a tance se smrtí v zrcadle nesmrtelnosti z české a slovenské polistopadové prózy

2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 363-372
Author(s):  
Lubomír Machala
Keyword(s):  
Violent Death ◽  
Human Mortality ◽  
National Literatures

Battles and dancing with death in the mirror of immortality in Czech and Slovak prose written after November 1989Thematization of human mortality has often been present in Czech and Slovak prosaic works written after 1989. This article presents and sometimes also analyses and interprets in detail these works. The author, for example, points out that in Trýznivé město, a trilogy written by D. Hodrová, people try to play games with death, or to struggle with it. In the novels written by P. Koudelka Peříčka, peříčka or M. Kundera Nesmrtelnost/Immortality the phenomenon of immortality is reflected. Since the 1990s, many younger Czech writers have been tending towards the so-called action genres and that is why depictions of violent death appear in their books more frequently. H. Andronikova vividly depicts a man’s fatal fight with a mortal disease. Out of Slovak prosaic works dealing with the issue of mortality, the author of the article thoroughly analyzes prose by M. Vadas Prečo sa smrtka smeje, P. Macsovský Mykať kostlivcami and P. Vilikovský Letmý sneh. The author concludes that most of the novels reflecting the phenomenon of immortality have significantly enriched national literatures of both countries.  Дуэли и танцы со смертью в зеркале бессмертияв чешской и словацкой прозе после ноябрьских событийТема человеческого бессмертия часто встречается в чешской и словацкой прозе после 1989 г. В статье представлен обзор, анализ и интерпретация произведений, в которых писатели обращаются к исследуемой теме. В трилогии Город мучений Trýznivé město Д. Годровой герои пытаются играть со смертью или бороться с ней. В романах П. Коуделки Перо, перо Peříčka, peříčka и М. Кундеры Бессмертие Nesmrtelnost проанализирован феномен бессмертия. В 1990-х годы многие молодые чешские писатели например, Р. Лудва и М. Урбан обращаются к приключенческим жанрам, в их произведениях прослеживается мотив насильственной смерти. В творчестве Г. Андроникова показано столкновение человека со смертельной болезнью. Темы смерти в словацкой прозе анализируется на материале произведений Почему Смерть смеётся Prečo sa smrtka smeje М. Вадаса, Трясущийся скелет Mykať kostlivcami П. Мачовского и Тающий снег Letmý sneh П. Виликовского.

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