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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Seo ul dae hag gyo / Seoul National University (SNU),  Koreanische Goethe-Gesellschaft,  Universität Innsbruck
    Goethes »West-östlicher Divan« und seine Übersetzung im Spannungsfeld von Weltlite­ratur, Orientalismus und Okzidentalismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt zielt auf die Entwicklung und Erprobung eines innovativen orientalistisch-okzidentalistischen Zugangs zu Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur, die sich als leistungs- wie durchsetzungsfähige und zugleich humanistische Perspektiven eröffnende...

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  World Literature,  Translation
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Nordic World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    To what extent has Nordic literature contributed to world literature and in what way has this literary export shaped the world's view of the Nordic countries? Reception theory is a central element in modern literary studies. Literary scholars,...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature
    Created on: 07.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Western Sydney (UWS),  University of Adelaide
    Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    World literature’ is now a field in its own right within literary studies. Over the last twenty years, those in this field have asked questions relating to global systems of power, dissemination, exchange, translation, and interpretation, with...

    Fields of research World Literature
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg
    Song Lyrics as a Challenge to Transnational Literary History – the Case of ”Vårvindar Friska”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project posits one piece of song lyrics as a productive challenge to literary history after the transnational turn: “Vårvindar friska” (Fresh Spring Breezes), by Julia Nyberg. Whereas most research on world literature and transnational...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  World Literature,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    The Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel from Stendhal to Zola
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose is to study how the cosmopolitan/vernacular dynamic is represented in novels by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, at a thematic, intratextual level as well as in translations of the novels into Swedish and in their reception in Sweden....

    Fields of research French literature,  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    Translated Local Cultures. Swedish Proletarian Realism in English Translation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Departing from the assumption that Swedish proletarian writers were, among other things, devoted to writing a local culture, this project examines the ways in which textual signs of locality transform as the novels are translated into English. The...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  World Literature and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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