The workshop is organized by:
The Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association
Workshop
In this workshop we’ll discuss the latest questions in comparative literature today, with a particular focus on genre, peripheriality and the world-systems approach. The workshop will open with a talk by the guest speaker, following which we’ll have a discussion and a series of short 10-min inputs and case studies from teams working in the projects UTOPIA and AUTOSTORY. The workshop is open to participation. No registration needed!
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Stephen Shapiro “How to Abolish the ‘novel’: Keywords in World-Cultural Studies”
The ongoing world-systems knowledge movement in literary and cultural studies has proposed that we need to decolonize our epistemology and liberate our academic disciplines from the categories that arose through the long dominance of centrist liberalism.
This talk will outline some of the perspectives and keywords of this approach to suggest that we need to refuse the axiom that all long-form fictions are best understood through the conceptual category of “the novel” or that the cultural productions of the (Western) core can register either the historical past or contemporary in advance of the rest of the world (the prejudice of consecrated “modernism”).
What would a study of culture from the non-dominant perspective (what Nietzsche called from “the frog’s perspective”) look like as a response to the contemporary university in crisis?
Programme
10.30-12:00 (Linna 5026) - Talk by Stephen Shapiro, Q&A and discussion of workshop materials.
12-13:00 - Lunch break
13-15:00 (K104 Väinö Linna -Sali) - Continuation of discussion about genre and literary periphery; short presentations from the projects UTOPIA and AUTOSTORY:
Karolina Bagdonė on “small literatures” and the case of Lithuania
Natalya Bekhta on the novel in Ukraine
Kristina Malmio, “The Finland-Swedish minority literature and the case of Monika Fagerholm’s Den amerikanska flickan”
Tero Vanhanen & Iida Pöllänen on the genre of romantasy
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