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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA) / University of Lisbon
    National Identities in Dialogue: Political and Literary Identity Constructions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique (1961-Present)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project aims to contribute to a better understanding of how national identities are constructed in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, before and after the Carnation Revolution (25 April 1974), in the complex tension between colonial power...

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Högskolan Dalarna / Dalarna University
    Cosmopolitan, Vernacular and Gender in the Circulation and Aesthetical Reception of African Literature Written in Portuguese
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project combines a focus on the dissemination and reception of contemporary Portuguese-language African literature across the Lusophone world with attention on the spread of this body of work into the English literary world through translation....

    Fields of research Portugese literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Reader-response criticism and 3 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Laboratoire "Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN)"
    Pour une analyse écopoétique des littératures de la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal (An ecopoetic approach to the literature of the Senegal River Valey) – EcoSen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    EcoSen a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les liens entre productions littéraires en langue peule et environnement dans la région du Fleuve Sénégal (sud de la Mauritanie, nord du Sénégal), par la mise en œuvre d’une approche théorique inédite pour...

    Fields of research Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Ecocriticism,  Poetics
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  8. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin
    Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Zukunftsphilologie fördert grundlegende Textforschung über den klassischen humanistischen Kanon hinaus. In einer Zeit fortgeschrittener Kommunikation, intellektueller Spezialisierung und beispielloser Mobilität von Wissen und Menschen kommt der...

    Fields of research Literary historiography,  Translation,  North African literature and 5 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Bayreuth (UBT)
    Poesie als ästhetische Praxis. Form, Erfahrung und lebensweltlicher Bezug sprachästhetischer Artikulation in Madagaskar und Tansania
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Sowohl im madagassischen Hochland als auch an der tansanischen Swahili-Küste sind verdichtete Formen sprachlichen Ausdrucks allgegenwärtig: Bei öffentlichen Veranstaltungen begeistern Redekünstler*Innen ihr Publikum, auf der Straße werden...

    Fields of research Reader-response criticism,  Oral poetry / Orality,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology and 1 more
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  10. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
    ICLA Research Committee on Comparative African Studies / Literary Histories of Africa
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The establishment of this Committee was approved in 2018.

    Fields of research North African literature,  Literature from Sub-Saharan Africa,  Literary historiography
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Generationengerechtigkeit neu verhandeln: Ein Vergleich von Generationenkrisen in Anglophoner Literatur und Film vom 20.-21. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Idee der ‚Generationengerechtigkeit’ ist zu einem der Schlüsselbegriffe des 21. Jahrhunderts geworden und bezieht sich heute meist auf die Rechte zukünftiger Generationen auf eine intakte Umwelt und eine stabile Gesellschaftsordnung. Während sich...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland and 5 more
    Created on: 07.01.2022