Overview

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.

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Author:   Bergur Rønne Moberg ,  David Damrosch
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   99
Weight:   0.377kg
ISBN:  

9789004522077

ISBN 10:   9004522077
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   05 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Bergur Rønne Moberg (PhD University of Copenhagen, 2004) is an Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Scandinavian, Faroese and Icelandic literature and culture, including the book Resten i Vesten. Verdenslitteratur i modernismens margin (2014, The Rest in the West. World Literature in the Margin of Literature), forthcoming in German in 2023. David Damrosch (PhD Yale, 1980) is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. He is author or editor of two dozen books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (2021).

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