On Cultural Transnationalisms: The case of World (-) literatures in Portuguese Seminar
- Time:
- 17:00 - 18:30
- Date:
- 22 November 2017
- Venue:
- Building 65 Room 1177 Avenue Campus SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this seminar, please email H.Armbruster@soton.ac.uk at H.Armbruster@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the annual seminar series for the Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS)
The resurface and resignification of the concept of World Literature in the beginning of the current century has certainly infused some new blood to the field of Comparative Literature. As the strong colours of the postcolonial critical paradigm lose appeal and prestige among funding agencies and academics, the paradigm of World Literature/World-Literature rises with its comforting image of a literature of the world as one, albeit uneven. As such, World (-) literature dislocates Comparative Literature’s focus from coloniality and hegemony, drawing attention to circulation and border-crossing, enabling potentially problematic frames of comparison.
Drawing from the case study of the circulation of the literatures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within and beyond the Portuguese-speaking world, this paper aims at questioning the potential of World(-)Literature as a productive critical paradigm from which to reconsider the world as one.
Speaker information
Dr Emanuelle Santos, University of Birmingham. Emanuelle Santos is a Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, where she is responsible for the undergraduate programme in Portuguese. She is currently working on her first monograph titled Late Postcoloniality: State, Violence and Wealth in the 21st Century Literatures of Portuguese-Speaking Africa to be published by Peter Lang. Her research engages critically with literary theory in the field of Comparative Literature from a peripheral perspective, addressing issues such as the postcolonial condition in the 21st century and South-South cultural exchanges. Her current research analyzes unevenness in current theories of World(-)Literature and their impact in the field for the circulation of works produced in Modern Languages, specially Portuguese.