A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literature. We live in the age of popular self-representation in that most people around the globe either produce or consume autobiographical material: memoirs, selfies, blogs, etc. The current volume investigates this global phenomenon and examines how life writing and world literature converge. Why do some personal stories get "picked up," translated, circulated, and taught in classrooms, while…mehr
A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by and becomes world literature. We live in the age of popular self-representation in that most people around the globe either produce or consume autobiographical material: memoirs, selfies, blogs, etc. The current volume investigates this global phenomenon and examines how life writing and world literature converge. Why do some personal stories get "picked up," translated, circulated, and taught in classrooms, while others remain moored in local waters? Do autobiographical stories that travel widely have something in common about them? Or is it the other way around, is it our notion of "world literature" that imposes uniform expectations on these diverse texts? And what can we gain from studying these two fields in conjunction? Life Writing as World Literature brings together experts who map regional and local autobiographical traditions from six continents. These scholars explore the dynamic interplay between local and global aesthetics and sociopolitical concerns, presenting case studies that include prison narratives from communist regimes, Japanese diaries, multilingual Caribbean memoirs, Indian auto/biographical comics, and stories by Taiwanese domestic workers. To understand how and why some personal stories enter global dissemination, contributors inquire into translation, market mechanisms, and circulation patterns, while also exploring the affordances of new media and materialities when recording contemporary lives. Life Writing as World Literature brings a fresh perspective to both fields - world literature and life writing - opening up exciting avenues of research.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Helga Lenart-Cheng is Professor of Global and Regional Studies at Saint Mary's College of California, USA. Her recent book, Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age (2022), combines cultural studies and critical media theory. Ioana Luca is Professor of English at National Taiwan Normal University. Her work focuses on life writing, Eastern European-US connections, and memory studies.
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Acknowledgements Life Writing and World Literature: Introduction Helga Lenart-Cheng Saint Mary's College of California USA and Ioana Luca National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Part I: Frames of Reading 1. Collection Connection Translation Comparison: The Provocations of Life Writing as World Literature John David Zuern University of Hawai'i Manoa USA 2. Auto/biographical Comics in World Literature: Gaps and Silences Julie Rak University of Alberta Canada 3. Life Writing and Citational Justice in the Context of World Literature Kim Rostan Wofford College USA Part II: From Local Traditions to Global Concerns 5. An African in the World: Noni Jabavu's Memoirs as World Literature Athambile Masola University of Cape Town South Africa 6. "A Writer of the World": Peter Abrahams's Autobiographical Texts South Africa and World Literature Marta Fossati University of Milan Italy 7. Rock-Star Comedian "Working Class Man": Popular Memoir and Celebrity Migrant Life Writing in Contemporary Australia Jacqui Dickin and Kylie Cardell Flinders University Australia 8. Caribbean Life Writing as World Literature Natalie Edwards (University of Bristol UK) Part III: Institutionalization Circulation Translation 9. Premodern Japanese Life Writing: Canonization Translation Adaptation and Worlding Christina Laffin University of British Columbia Canada 10. Whose Life (Narrative) Is It Anyways? Circulation Translation and Unbelonging in Gina Saraceni's Adriático and Raquel Rivas Rojas's Inventario para después de una Guerra Irina R. Troconis Cornell University USA 11. Worlding Precarious Lives: Southeast-Asian Workers in Taiwan Joan Chiung-huei Chang National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Part IV: Life Writing: Local History and Global Memory 12. Surviving Genres: Life Writing and the Communist Carceral Experience Oana Popescu-Sandu University of Southern Indiana USA 13. A Nicaraguan Woman's Auto/biographical Resistance: Gioconda Belli and Literary [R]Evolution Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle The College of New Jersey USA 14. Globalizing Caste: The Contemporary Dalit Feminist Memoir Sreya Chatterjee University of Houston USA Part V: Worldliness Materialities and Activism 15. Travel Disease and Life Writing as World Literature: Jack London Audre Lorde Gao Xingjian Alfred Hornung Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Germany 16. Children's Drawings from Ukraine: Drawing Life Drawing the World Kate Douglas and Edith Hill Flinders University Australia 17. Activism and the Graphic Memoir: Between the Personal and the Political Julia Alekseyeva University of Pennsylvania USA Afterword. Life History and the Literatures of the World: Notes toward a Provocation S. Shankar University of Hawai'i Manoa USA Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Life Writing and World Literature: Introduction Helga Lenart-Cheng Saint Mary's College of California USA and Ioana Luca National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Part I: Frames of Reading 1. Collection Connection Translation Comparison: The Provocations of Life Writing as World Literature John David Zuern University of Hawai'i Manoa USA 2. Auto/biographical Comics in World Literature: Gaps and Silences Julie Rak University of Alberta Canada 3. Life Writing and Citational Justice in the Context of World Literature Kim Rostan Wofford College USA Part II: From Local Traditions to Global Concerns 5. An African in the World: Noni Jabavu's Memoirs as World Literature Athambile Masola University of Cape Town South Africa 6. "A Writer of the World": Peter Abrahams's Autobiographical Texts South Africa and World Literature Marta Fossati University of Milan Italy 7. Rock-Star Comedian "Working Class Man": Popular Memoir and Celebrity Migrant Life Writing in Contemporary Australia Jacqui Dickin and Kylie Cardell Flinders University Australia 8. Caribbean Life Writing as World Literature Natalie Edwards (University of Bristol UK) Part III: Institutionalization Circulation Translation 9. Premodern Japanese Life Writing: Canonization Translation Adaptation and Worlding Christina Laffin University of British Columbia Canada 10. Whose Life (Narrative) Is It Anyways? Circulation Translation and Unbelonging in Gina Saraceni's Adriático and Raquel Rivas Rojas's Inventario para después de una Guerra Irina R. Troconis Cornell University USA 11. Worlding Precarious Lives: Southeast-Asian Workers in Taiwan Joan Chiung-huei Chang National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Part IV: Life Writing: Local History and Global Memory 12. Surviving Genres: Life Writing and the Communist Carceral Experience Oana Popescu-Sandu University of Southern Indiana USA 13. A Nicaraguan Woman's Auto/biographical Resistance: Gioconda Belli and Literary [R]Evolution Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle The College of New Jersey USA 14. Globalizing Caste: The Contemporary Dalit Feminist Memoir Sreya Chatterjee University of Houston USA Part V: Worldliness Materialities and Activism 15. Travel Disease and Life Writing as World Literature: Jack London Audre Lorde Gao Xingjian Alfred Hornung Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Germany 16. Children's Drawings from Ukraine: Drawing Life Drawing the World Kate Douglas and Edith Hill Flinders University Australia 17. Activism and the Graphic Memoir: Between the Personal and the Political Julia Alekseyeva University of Pennsylvania USA Afterword. Life History and the Literatures of the World: Notes toward a Provocation S. Shankar University of Hawai'i Manoa USA Bibliography Index
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