Bhattacharya, S. and Chattopadhyay, A. (2017) Why world literature: introductory dialogues. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 4(1), pp. 1-8.
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Abstract
In this issue, we acknowledge the phenomenal rise of world literature in current (Euro-American) literary studies. Although world literature as an object of study was revived in the 1990s, it was not till the last decade or so that scholars expressed such intense engagement with the issue. A number of journal special issues, anthologies, monographs, conferences, and symposia were published which widened and complicated the use of the term. Alongside the definitive volumes of David Damrosch’s What is World Literature (2003) and How to Read World Literature (2009), which have variously focussed on the issue of translation, there have been more critical interventions regarding methodology and employment of the term, notably by Emily Apter who has questioned the possibility of communication and meaning-making through translation, by Pascale Casanova who has pointed out the importance of world publication circuits and cultural capital, by Francesca Orsini who has highlighted the question of significant geographies as opposed to marginal geographies shaping literary imagination and form, and by Franco Moretti and the Warwick Research Collective who have attempted to politicise the category of world literature through a world-systemic reading.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Bhattacharya, Dr Sourit |
| Authors: | Bhattacharya, S., and Chattopadhyay, A. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry |
| Publisher: | Sanglap |
| ISSN: | 2349-8064 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2349-8064 |
| Published Online: | 30 September 2017 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 4(1): 1-8 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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