Ultraminor World Literatures

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52207-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 314 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

This pathbreaking collection explores a new concept in world literature studies. Going beyond the binary opposition of “major” and “minor” literatures, the ultraminor encompasses the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities. Using cases as varied as the literatures of Malta, Mauritius, and the Faroe Islands, contemporary Nahuatl novels, Kafka in Prague, and Shakespeare in Naples, the ten essays in this volume take up questions of scale and circulation, the interplay of languages and dialects, and ultraminor writers’ resistance to translation and their reliance on it. Ultraminor World Literatures will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative and world literature and to anyone concerned with the ongoing life of unique cultural communities around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moberg, Bergur

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moberg, Bergur Rønne

Damrosch, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Defining the Ultraminor

Bergur Rønne Moberg and David Damrosch

At the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and Translation

Andrea Bachner

Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle

Andrea Cabajsky

Third-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua Literature

Matylda Figlerowicz

Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta

Oliver Friggieri

The Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese Literature

Bergur Rønne Moberg

Life in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor Literature

Matthew Nelson

The Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre Fiction

Rashi Rohatgi

Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentino

Elisa Segnini

Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in Malayalam

Bhavya Tiwari

The Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the Ultraminor

Veronika Tuckerová

Über Autor(innen)

Bergur Rønne Moberg (PhD University of Copenhagen, 2004) is an Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Scandinavian, Faroese and Icelandic literature and culture, including the book Resten i Vesten. Verdenslitteratur i modernismens margin (2014, The Rest in the West. World Literature in the Margin of Literature), forthcoming in German in 2023.

David Damrosch (PhD Yale, 1980) is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. He is author or editor of two dozen books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (2021).