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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    In the Frame: Social and Cultural Geographies of Documentary Modernism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Irina Rasmussen Goloubeva’s project explores modernist collaborative projects: the modes of reading they invite, the values they generate, and the worlds that they project. It argues that the adaptation of journalistic, ethnographic, and analytical...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    African Women Writers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores transnational dynamics in the literary production of African women writers in Nigeria and Tanzania, with an emphasis on feminism and cosmopolitanism. Drawing on anthropological theory and method, it is an ethnographic study...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Translation, Circulation and the Semi-Periphery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By researching translation flows, the cosmopolitanising and vernacularising dynamics of translation, translation as consecration, and gender as a mediating category in the circulation of literature, sub-group 4 aims at studying cosmopolitan and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    World Literatures. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Based at Stockholm University, this research programme will run from 2016 until 2021 with the generous support of The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Its task is to explore, across numerous languages, how aesthetic values,...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literary genre,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 03.06.2019