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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Expressing Siberian Exile: Literature, Language, and the Resistance of the Real
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I explore nineteenth century narratives of Siberian exile. The writers that I work with––Anton Chekhov, George Kennan, Peter Kropotkin, Henry Lansdell, and others—were all facing difficulties in their attempts to represent the social...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Chinese literature: the short stories and novels by Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this study, I will examine how Lu Xun, Lao She and Ba Jin in novels and short stories written between 1900-1950 draw on ancient Chinese cosmopolitan literary traditions as well as indigenous vernacular and popular modes of storytelling, in...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    From Periphery to Center: Swedish Literature on the French Book Market
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my project is to describe the transmission of literature (fiction) from a small language area (the ”vernacular” or the ”periphery”, in this case: Sweden) to a larger one (the ”cosmopolitan” or the ”centre”, in this case: France). This...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  French literature,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Afropolitanism's vernaculars: literature and theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose of my contribution to this project is to critique cosmopolitanism’s tendency to circumvent African spaces, aesthetics and phenomenologies. I aim to theorise the term Afropolitanism and to implement it in the analysis of contemporary...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary theory,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Transcendental Translations: The Making of New England’s Literary Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Translation was central to New England Transcendentalism, the literary culture of antebellum New England. This project focuses on how its translation activities shaped American literature and politics. It pays particular attention to translations...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  World Literature,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    For Another Nouveau Roman: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Formal Turn
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How are we to understand the fact that the turbulent decades when France lost its empire coincided with a formal turn in French literature and literary theory? Perhaps by way of Jacques Rancière’s notion of the politics of literature as being...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Tropical Engagements: Vernaculars in French Early Modern Travel Writing (Africa and the Caribbean 1645-1728)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    "Tropical Engagements" examines how vernacular languages are incorporated into and impact upon early modern French travel writing from Africa and the Caribbean, by means of lexical inclusions of foreign words and of reported dialogues. The purpose is...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  World Literature,  Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality and 4 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019