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An important question concerning literary studies is the circulation of literary works beyond their place of origin. Many other aspects must also be taken into consideration, such as the asymmetric positioning of authors and their work in international circulation, which is conditioned by the relative position of languages and cultures in the global market. This volume focuses on literary and cultural circulation and includes essays that explore this topic through case studies, analysing works and authors from diverse literatures and cultures, and discussions of the theoretical issues surrounding circulation and all that it entails: temporality, place, method, material objects and concepts.
List of contents
CONTENTS: José Luís Jobim: Introduction: Towards a New Approach to the Study of Literary and Cultural Circulation - Helena Carvalhão Buescu: Untimeliness, Recognition and Respect in the Work of Gonçalo Tavares - Olga Kempinska: Cultural Circulation and the Age of Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz - Fabio Akcelrud Durão: Circulation as Constitutive Principle - Begoña Regueiro/Amelia Sanz/Miriam Llamas: Literatures for a Global Imaginary: The Circulation of Digital Literature in Spanish - Laura Sánchez Gómez: E-books in Spanish: A Global Object in Circulation - Eduardo F. Coutinho: Revisiting Transculturation in Latin America: The Case of Marvelous Realism - Theo D'haen: J. J. Slauerhoff, Dutch Literature and World Literature - Paulo Moreira: When America First Became Latin - Benjamin Abdala Junior: Comparative Literature and Literary Circulation: Reflections on a Critical Trajectory - Fábio Almeida de Carvalho: Some Considerations on Processes of Literary Circulation: The Indigenous Cultural Matrix within the Brazilian Cultural Matrix - Roberto Mibielli: «Tupy or not tupy that is the question». The Void and the Question of Literary and Cultural Circulation in Amazonia: Considerations on a Literature «without a character» - Robert Patrick Newcomb: The Idea of Sobranceria in the Luso-Brazilian Essay of National Interpretation - Maria Elizabeth Chaves de Mello: The Circulation of Ideas within Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism between France and Brazil: The Role of Travellers - Bethania Mariani: The Brazilian Encyclopaedia, Language Policy and the Circulation of Ideas about the Democratization of Culture: Mário de Andrade (1939) and Eurialo Canabrava (1957) - Kenneth David Jackson: Machado de Assis: The Theater of the World - Zhang Longxi: In Search of a Land of Happiness: Utopia and Its Discontents - José Luís Jobim: Cannibalism as Cultural Appropriation: From Caliban to the Cannibalist Manifesto.
About the author
José Luís Jobim is Professor of Literature and Chair of the Graduate Program in Literary Studies at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He was President of the Brazilian Comparative Literature Association and has authored sixteen books and seventythree articles in Brazilian and international journals during his thirty-year career. His recent publications about literary and cultural circulation include Le dialogue Europe-Brésil dans l¿oeuvre de Machado de Assis (Paris/Niterói: EDUFF, 2016) and «From Europe to Latin America», Journal of World Literature, vol. 1 (2016). He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), among others.
