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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520101603321

Titolo

Vernaculars in an age of world literatures / / edited by Christina Kullberg and David Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2022

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Collana

Cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics in world literatures

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Native language

Language and culture

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,Literary theory,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Introduction - The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamic: Conjunctions of World Literature -- Helena Bodin (Stockholm University, Sweden), Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Christina Kulberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Tenngart (Lund University, Sweden), and Helena Wulff (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- Introduction: Theorizing the Vernacular -- Christina Kullberg and David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 1. Contextualizing the Vernacular: Signposts from African Language, Writing, and Literature -- Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California Davis, USA) -- 2. Vernacular Resistance: Catalan, Basque, and Galician Opposition to Francoist Monolingualism -- Christian Claesson (Lund University, Sweden) -- 3. The Modern Adventures of Kanian Poongundranar, Classical Tamil Poet: Reflections on Literatures of the World, Vernacularly Speaking -- Subramanian Shankar (University of Hawai'i, USA) -- 4. Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria -- Christina Kullberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 5. From Fesiten to Fesibuku: Shifting Priorities in the Saamanka Vernacular -- Richard Price and Sally Price (College of



William and Mary, USA) -- 6. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in Modern Chinese Fiction and Lao She's Satirical Novel Cat Country -- Lena Rydholm (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 7. Worldly Themes and Vernacular Literature: Aino Kallas on Gender, Ethnicity, and Class -- Katarina Leppänen (Gothenburg University, Sweden) -- 8. Specters of the Vernacular: Neoliberalism, World Literature, and Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings -- David Watson (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 9. Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature -- Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden) -- Afterword: A Vernacular Future? -- Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK) -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Reimagines the vernacular as a critical concept for rethinking world literatures"