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Ultraminor World Literatures (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 99)

✍ Scribed by Bergur Rnne Moberg (editor), David Damrosch (editor)

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
219
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction: Defining the Ultraminor (Moberg and Damrosch)
‎At the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and Translation (Bachner)
‎Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle (Cabajsky)
‎Third-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua Literature (Figlerowicz)
‎Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta (Friggieri)
‎The Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese Literature (Moberg)
‎Life in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor Literature (Nelson)
‎The Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre Fiction (Rohatgi)
‎Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentino (Segnini)
‎Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in Malayalam (Tiwari)
‎The Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the Ultraminor (Tuckerová)

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