TY - JOUR
T1 - Publication, Circulation and the Vernacular
T2 - Dimensions of World Literary Unevenness
AU - Claesson, Christian
AU - Helgesson, Stefan
AU - Mahmutović, Adnan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This introduction positions the essays in this special issue in relation to Pascale Casanova’s model of inequality and value in the world republic of letters. Arguing that the vernacular has been an overlooked or underelaborated concept in subsequent world literary theorizations, the essay then proceeds to discuss the shifting value and nature of the vernacular–a concept that only has meaning if it is understood relationally. Both the vernacular and world literature are therefore utilized as heuristic tools, enabling dialogues across entrenched linguistic, cultural and theoretical boundaries. Hence, the unorthodox combination of South African, North American, Indian, Swedish, Russian, Mozambican and Latin American perspectives presented here.
AB - This introduction positions the essays in this special issue in relation to Pascale Casanova’s model of inequality and value in the world republic of letters. Arguing that the vernacular has been an overlooked or underelaborated concept in subsequent world literary theorizations, the essay then proceeds to discuss the shifting value and nature of the vernacular–a concept that only has meaning if it is understood relationally. Both the vernacular and world literature are therefore utilized as heuristic tools, enabling dialogues across entrenched linguistic, cultural and theoretical boundaries. Hence, the unorthodox combination of South African, North American, Indian, Swedish, Russian, Mozambican and Latin American perspectives presented here.
KW - Casanova
KW - circulation
KW - literary value
KW - Pascale
KW - unevenness
KW - vernacular
KW - world literature
U2 - 10.1080/1369801X.2020.1718535
DO - 10.1080/1369801X.2020.1718535
M3 - Debate/Note/Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85083088934
SN - 1369-801X
VL - 22
SP - 301
EP - 309
JO - Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies
JF - Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies
IS - 3
ER -