[Anthropgrad] WIP SEMINAR - Debjani Ganguly - 7 March

[Jodi Parvey]

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>>The Research School of Humanities presents

WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR


1 - 2.30 pm, Friday 7 March

Literary Globalism in the New Millennium

Debjani Ganguly, RSH, ANU

What connections exist between an 18th century BCE Akkadian text, The 
Epic of Gilgamesh, and the occupation of Iraq? How do we envision a 
new template for comparative literature in a post-9/11 world of 
multiple war zones where the stakes of 'translation' are so high as 
to be literally 'deadly', especially where Arabic is concerned? What 
is at risk in aligning the idea of a 'world literature' with the 
synchronic time of global capital, in hitching world literature to a 
'postal ebbing of history'?

These are some of the issues that will be addressed in this 
presentation which delves into the complex repertoire of 
transformations wrought upon literary studies by contemporary forces 
of globalization. The discussion will be structured around three 
themes: the idea of world literature; translation and literary 
globalism; and the relevance of postcolonial approaches to 
contemporary forms of comparativism.

Debjani Ganguly is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Humanities 
Research Centre in the Research School of Humanities.  She is a 
literary and cultural historian and has published in the areas of 
postcolonial studies, global Anglophone writing, theories of world 
literature, caste and dalit studies, cultural histories of 
mixed-race, the eclectic cosmopolitanism of Gandhian thought, and 
Indian literary criticism.  She is currently working on a world 
literature project on Anglophone writing in the post-Cold War period 
with a focus on transnational works dealing with the global immanence 
of terror, warfare and genocide.

  Convenors: Ken Taylor and Stephen Foster


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Carolyn Strange
Senior Research Fellow
Research School of Humanities
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT
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Adjunct Prof. of Criminology and History
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