Abstract
This essay begins by investigating the possibility of a global literary history through the lens of periodization and its challenges for comparatists, starting from World War I. Second, by examining neglected texts from the periphery, it seeks to ‘provincialize’ the Eurocentric focus of our histories of war literature. To address the complex temporality of this epoch, we must accommodate the multicultural contexts from which these works emerge, as well as the long-term recovery of texts. Belatedness reflects the reemergence of memories from trauma, the discovery of manuscripts, the paucity of translations, and the long silencing of marginalized voices from the periphery. In turn, shifts in critical values and the translation of materials permit us to enlarge and reconstitute a globalized archive, as a few examples demonstrate. Great War texts by Huidobro, Svarnakumari, and Diallo as well as oral laments offer fruitful perspectives from the periphery on that epochal experience.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Delocalizing European Literatures
- A Challenge to Global Literary History: The Case of World War I
- Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Anglophone World Literatures: Comparative Histories of Literary Worlding
- Heterogeneic Time: An Anachronistic and Transcultural Rethinking of Eurochronology
- On Writing a Comparative Literary History: Delocalizing Minor Literatures in European Languages in the Age of ‘Big Data’
- Contributions
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- Die Iberische Halbinsel im frühen Mittelalter: Ausgangspunkt für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen den Ottonen und den andalusischen Muslimen
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Delocalizing European Literatures
- A Challenge to Global Literary History: The Case of World War I
- Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Anglophone World Literatures: Comparative Histories of Literary Worlding
- Heterogeneic Time: An Anachronistic and Transcultural Rethinking of Eurochronology
- On Writing a Comparative Literary History: Delocalizing Minor Literatures in European Languages in the Age of ‘Big Data’
- Contributions
- Silence / Signification Degree Zero: Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Aesthetic of the Body
- Barthes liest Baudelaire und Mallarmé: Der Jahrmarkt als Mythos des Alltags
- The (Forgotten) Significance of Interchapters in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: From Tenancy to Seasonal Migrant Farm Labor
- “Reopening the Grave”: Reading Trauma and Abjection in Hibakusha Poetry
- Die Iberische Halbinsel im frühen Mittelalter: Ausgangspunkt für interkulturelle Kontakte zwischen den Ottonen und den andalusischen Muslimen
- Review
- Dorothea von Mücke: The Practices of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Authorship, and the Public. New York: Columbia UP, 2015. 320 pp.
- Lama Jabb: Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation. London: Lexington Books, 2015. 277 pp.
- Sarga Moussa et Serge Zenkine, dir. : L’Imaginaire raciologique en France et en Russie, XIXe–XXesiècles. Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon (Littérature et idéologies), 2018. 205 pp.
- Massimo Cacciari: The Witholding Power: An Essay on Political Theology. Trans. Edi Pucci. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 240 pp.
- Review: Reihe Literatur und Politik
- Branislav Jakovljević: Alienation Effects. Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945–91. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2016. 382 pp.
- Review: Reihe Wieder gelesen
- André Jolles: Simple Forms. Trans. Peter J. Schwartz. Foreword by Fredric Jameson. London and New York: Verso, 2017. 230 pp.