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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Production of Paradise. The role of travel literature in the discursive construction of the South Sea as utopia on Earth
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project sets out to understand how travel literature translates and mediates accounts from and of the world – from one local setting to another, and over time. It is, more specifically, concerned with Western travel writers’ persistent and...

    Fields of research Australian/Oceanian literature,  World Literature,  travel literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Globalization and Civic Imagination in American-Muslim Writing Since 2001
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project looks into the ways socio-political developments in the US and its role in the global new world order(s) since 2001 affected the changes in the notion of citizenry and its manifestations in literature. Writings by Mohsin Hamid, Michael...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    World-making: Genres, Crafts and Languages
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By adopting and adapting the term "world-making" (Valdés, Kadir, Hayot, Cheah, Neumann), sub-group 3 investigates how the world acquires density and meaning through literary practice. Rather than different scales of reading, the focus here is on...

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