A Postnational Turn in Contemporary Korean Literature
Abstrak
In her much-discussed book The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova pre sents a formulation of world literary space as a global hierarchical complex of national literatures, a space at once divided by competition on the part of national literatures for domination and unified by the transnational and translingual movements such competition unleashes. Casano va begins her narrative of the international literary order with the rise of French, rather than Latin, as the language of culture and refinement, locating the complex's geocultural center in Paris. Her for mulation of world literary space has no room for an explanation of national literatures whose com mon objective was to achieve liberation from the authority of any other language, namely classical Chinese?an East Asian equivalent of Latin?or for the theoretical possibility of another republic of letters independent from her Eurocentric model. Literatures of East Asian nations would seem to her no more than an instance of what she calls the
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Jongyon Hwang
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2022
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 6×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1353/wlt.2010.0050
- Akses
- Open Access ✓