
Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere
July 11-20th, 2019, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Participants & Projects
Adeniyi, Emmanuel (Federal University Oye-Ekiti) |
Major-Minor Binary, Subversion of Metropolitan Language and the Construction of Home-Grown Epistemology in African Literature of English Expression |
Alagunfon, Sulaiman (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Genre That Matters: The Maqāma Literature Outside The Usual Terrain |
Ali, Yaser (Universität of Exeter) |
In and Out of Iraq: The Triple Marginalisation of Bahdinani Literature |
Ben-Isaak, Irad (Europa-Universität Viadrina) |
Questioning the Minority Status of Yiddish literature |
Beridze, Irine (Universität Potsdam) |
Deterritorialized Language of Migration (Deterritorialisierte Sprache der Migration) |
Cheveri, Ashokan Nambiar (India) |
Historicising Newness: The Emergence of a Modern Literary Space in Malayalam, c 1880-1920 |
Codina Sola, Nuria (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) |
Writing Beyond the Mother (Tongue): Gender and Multilingualism in the Works of Najat El Hachmi and Chika Unigwe |
Eldridge, Daria (Stanford University) |
The Time of Heresy: Old Belief in the Writings of Nikolai Leskov |
Eqeiq, Amal (Williams College) |
Small Literatures, Big Affinities: From Palestine and Chiapas to the Global South |
Erdogan, Selen (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) |
A Queer Take on Violence from the “Periphery”: Bilge Karasu’s Texts as Minor Literature? |
Greene, Matthew (University of Wisconsin) |
Banana Children: Racialized Belonging Among Vietnamese Czechs |
Haman, Brian (Vienna) |
Marginal Exotica: Post-WWII Russian-German Fiction as Minor Literature? |
Hebbouch, Sarah (Mohammed V University) |
Forging Canonicity: The Dynamics of Beur Literature |
Honarpisheh, Donna (UC Berkeley) |
Possession as Form: Reading the Space-Time of Waves and Winds in Simin Daneshvar’s “Sutra” |
Keegan, Matthew (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Before Literature: Adab in an Age of Commentary |
Landau, David (Switzerland) |
Fathers and Sons, Majority and Minority: Minor Literature in Hindi and Hebrew |
Ndakalako-Bannikov, Martha (University of Oregon) |
Local Places, Global Spaces: Namibian Literary Production in the Landscapes of World Literary Space |
Roba, Ayele Kebede (SOAS University of London) |
In Defence of the Liminal Voices: Literary Minority as a Form of Resistance |
Stephan, Johannes (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Literature Without Adab? Rethinking Arabic Literary History through a Scrutiny of Early Modern Self-Narratives |
Tchokothe, Remi (Universität Bayreuth) |
‘Major language, ‘minor’ literature? Decolonial Practice in Selected Works from the Comoros |