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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2023
    New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation. Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    International conference in Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation: Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches Date: 22-23 August 2024, Stockholm (Sweden) ...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature and cultural studies,  Children's and young adult literature and 1 more
    Created on: 20.11.2023
  2. 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
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    The Contemporary Russian Cosmopolitans
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During the Post- Soviet period Russian culture has re-entered a common globalized space. The traditional dichotomy of Russia vs. the West which characterized Russian cultural dynamics has entered a new phase marked by the re-evaluation of the notion...

    Fields of research Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Language and Literary Worldmaking in Southern Africa: The Case of Little Magazines
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The titles of literary journals in southern Africa tell an interesting story. We have, on the hand, all those irreducibly local and vernacular names: Voorslag (Durban 1926-1927), Izwi (Johannesburg 1971-1974), Charrua (Maputo 1984-1985), ...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. 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
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Cosmopolitan longings and vernacular belongings. Constantinople in literary fin-de-siècle and high modernism
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of this subproject is to study experiences, conceptions and functions of Constantinople. It contributes to the programme’s theme of world-making and languages by looking at literary representations of “one” place across a number of languages,...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Made in Italy. A diachronic study of literary circulation and translation in the semiperihery
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Focusing on the translation flow from Italy to Sweden, the primary aim of this project is to examine the changes that the symbolic capital of Italian literature has undergone in the Swedish context during the last century and its manifestations in...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Italian literature,  World Literature and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    East African literature on the market 2000-2010
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    PhD Erik Falk’s project “East African literature on the market 2000-2010” investigates the disjunctive relationship between literary markets for East African fiction in English. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, falls...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  World Literature,  Literature and publishing/booktrade and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Cosmopolitanizing from Within: Migrant Writers in Sweden
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This subproject explores the social world of the young generation of migrant writers and their work, fiction and journalism, ranging from established writers such as Jonas Hassen Khemiri to debutantes such as Pooneh Rohi. By uncovering often cruel...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. 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
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Mediating the North in a Transnational Context. Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Places in Nordic Noir
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Louise Nilsson's project within the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures addresses the values of places depicted in literature. Seeing that the contemporary genre of Nordic crime fiction is a globally...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Novel
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. 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
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Worldly vernaculars in the Anglophone Caribbean: Claiming place by means of literary style
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Based on earlier work on the construction of place in the Anglophone Caribbean, this study seeks to delineate the ways in which the writers of a peripheral cosmopolitanism (a cosmopolitanism that was always to some extent imposed on its subjects)...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Stockholm University
    Carry the Burden of the Past, Capture the Present and Bear a Promise to the Future? - Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Memories in Sinophonic Literatures
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    By tracing vernacular and cosmopolitan tendencies in the making of ”Chinese literature” I am exploring the literary field as a contested site of struggle between global and local commitments, thereby creating continuously changing notions of identity...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. 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