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Open to Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff at UW-Madison The World Literature/s Research Workshop aims to identify and explore the distinctions, implications, and the tensions underlying the conceptualization of "World Literature/s" - in singularity and plurality. Along with promoting new research in the field through a dialogue across departments of literature, the workshop seeks to facilitate pedagogical innovations in both graduate and undergraduate curricula at UW-Madison. | |||||||||
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For our May meeting, you are cordially invited to the following lecture and discussion: "Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela" Waïl S. Hassan
Friday, May 3 Abstract: Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also Affiliate Faculty in the Center for African Studies, the Center for Global Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Translation Studies, the Departments of French and English as well as the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Prof. Hassan has provided the following readings for discussion:
Note: Readings are password protected. Email Karolina May-Chu for the password. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of African Languages and Literatures, and the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World Research Circle. The A.W. Mellon World Literature/s Research Workshop (2012-13) is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison. It's a collaborative between the Global Studies Center and the Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH). This workshop is open to faculty, graduate students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Expressions of interest to join the workshop are welcome, but not required. | |||||||||
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The recent history of our world is marked by escalation of migration and the amplification of technological and financial interdependence between nations. The present stories of our world consequently capture the collaborative as well as confrontational interactions that we as residents of the world create and inhabit. Contemporary literature has registered, documented, and creatively interpreted such moments of collaboration and confrontation. The intensification of cross-cultural and transnational dialogues and conflicts - captured in innumerable novels, short stories, and poems during the last three decades - has demanded newer modes of disciplinary evaluation and critique of this body of literature. From migratory and/or minoritarian contexts within national literary traditions, from recognition of transcendence of national canons, recent literary criticism has seen an unprecedented expansion of scale and scope. This expansion is evident in the resurgence of discussions around the term “World Literature/s” and publication of a number of volumes on the topic since 2000. A careful examination of these discussions reveals the emergence of two distinct sets of texts. World Literature - in the singular - seems reserved for the repository of the timeless wisdom of the world, the best representation of the multitude of narrative forms and traditions around the world from the antiquity to the present. World Literatures - in the plural - however, is unreflectively used for contemporary literature written in and/or translated into English and other languages of European descent. Marketed as exemplars of the contemporariness of the world, such literary works make their way into the classroom through courses and series on “World Literatures.” The seemingly democratic plurality ascribed to the noun, however, does not guarantee this body of works the singularity reserved for the repertoire of “World Literature.” The contemporariness of “World Literatures” creates the impression of their being ephemeral; their multifaceted and purportedly chaotic ambition is often measured against the timeless and eternal value inscribed to representative works of a national or a linguistic canon assembled under the rubric “World Literature.” The purpose of the World Literature/s Research Workshop is to identify and explore the distinctions, implications, and the tensions underlying the conceptualization of “World Literature/s”—in singularity and plurality. The workshop will investigate historical and contemporary conceptualizations of the category “World Literature.” To this end, members will read and discuss theoretical reflections on the concept of “World Literature” since Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s inception of the term Weltliteratur in 1827 and move to current debates. The workshop aims to benefit from the expertise of its members in order to isolate debates on “World Literature/s” in multiple linguistic, national, and literary contexts. Along with promoting new research in the field through a dialogue across departments of literature, the workshop seeks to facilitate pedagogical innovations in both graduate and undergraduate curricula at UW-Madison. |
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September 28, 2007 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
October 26, 2007 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
December 7, 2007 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
February 1, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
April 4, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
April 29, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
October 3, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
November 7, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
December 5, 2008 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
April 3, 2009 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
May 8, 2009 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
October 2, 2009 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
February 5, 2010 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
March 5, 2010 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
April 9, 2010 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
May 7, 2010 - all files are pdfs, size of files noted (in parentheses)
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Dec 3, 2010
Feb 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011
Apr 4, 2011
Apr 8, 2011
May 6, 2011
Oct 7, 2011
Nov 4, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 from 3:00 – 5:00
Feb 3, 2012 from 3:00 – 5:00
March 2, 2012 from 3:00 – 5:00 April 12, 2012
December 7, 2012
February 1, 2013 (with Nirvana Tanoukhi)
March 5, 2013 (with Yoko Tawada)
April 12, 2013
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Block, Haskell M., ed. The Teaching of World Literature: Proceedings of the Conference at the University of Wisconsin, 1959. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960. Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Translated by M. B. Bebevoise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Damrosch, David. What is World Literature? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Eckermann, J. P. Conversations with Goethe. Translated by Gisela O’Brien. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1964. Eckermann, J. P. Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life, Translated from the German of Eckermann. Translated by S. M. Fuller. Boston: Hillard, Gray, and Co., 1839. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Conversations with Eckermann, Being Appreciations and Criticisms on Many Subjects. With an Introduction by Wallace Wood. New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1901. Kumar, Amitava, ed. World Bank Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Manifesto of the Communist Party. In Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Vol. 1, The Revolutions of 1848, 62-98. New York: Vintage, 1974. Pizer, John. The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Prendergast, Christopher, ed. Debating World Literature. London: Verso, 2004. Strich, Fritz. Goethe and World Literature. Translated by C. A. M. Sym. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949. |
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