The ‘Here’ and ‘Elsewhere’ in World Literature: Interview with Bodhisattva Kar
The Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere” (Berlin, 11-20 July 2019) aimed to question common assumptions...
Kategorie: Minor/Small Literatures
Mapping/Tracing National Literature without a Nation-state: Interview with Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Michael Allan interviewed Refqa Abu-Remaileh on her current project in the framework of the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from...
Discussing World Literature with Pheng Cheah – Some Reflections
Daria Eldridge, Stanford University and Johannes Stephan, Freie Universität Berlin This year’s special guest and plenary speaker of the Transregional...
Crossing Borders and Shattering Boundaries at the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere”
Matthew Greene, University of Wisconsin-Madison Stepping through the large stone archway, the city—with its softly rumbling metro, a gentle breeze...
First Day of the Academy
All of our participants have arrived and we have had our first working day last Friday (12 July). We look...
B. Venkat Mani
Member of the steering committee B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German, and Director of the Center for South Asia...
Bodhisattva Kar
Member of the steering committee Bodhisattva Kar is Senior Lecturer and Head (Academic) of the Department of Historical Studies, University...
Susanne Frank
Member of the steering committee Susanne Frank (Humboldt University Berlin) studied in Vienna, Konstanz and Moscow, and graduated from the...
Zaal Andronikashvili
Member of the steering committe Zaal Andronikashvili is a research fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Studies...
Michael Allan
Member of the steering committee Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, where he...
Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Member of the steering committee Refqa Abu-Remaileh is an Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin’s Arabic Department. She is...
Selen Erdoğan: A Queer Take on Violence from the “Periphery” – Bilge Karasu’s Texts as Minor Literature?
For a long time, Turkish literary critics used the label ‘foreign’ when describing a certain group of texts as having...
Irine Beridze: The Deterritorialized Language of Migration
This research project focuses on the book ‘Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature’ written by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. They...
Ashokan Nambiar Cheveri: Historicising Newness – The Emergence of a Modern Literary Space within Malayalam, c. 1880-1920
My current project involves writing a history of the new literary space that emerged within Malayalam, the major language of...
Daria Eldridge: Time of Heresy – Old Belief in the Writings of Nikolai Leskov
My current project considers Nikolai Leskov’s literary engagement with the space of the anathematized and often itinerant Old Believers (staroobriadtsy/starovery),...
