Workshop “Caminhos e Imagens do ‘Outro': Imagologia e Transnacionalismo”
Publication date: 23-05-2016 12:27
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A conferência de abertura será proferida por Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, USA), com o título “What Do We Do When the Other Speaks her Own Language : Returning to the Ethics of Comparativism”. Using the structuring metaphor of an imaginary meeting between Walt Whitman and Jose Marti, I examine the relationship between American formulations of World Literature and Comparative Literature and investigate how each discipline 'welcomes' the Other. I distinguish between what a European comparatist might envision about the relationship between the two disciplines, as working together in a symbiotic relationship to engage in passive and active canon reform. The European comparatist might take a neutral attitude to the recent American marketing of World Literature. I do not see this phenomenon in neutral terms and examine the American configuration of World Literature as a political program, discussing its origins in Area Studies, its relationship to the American academic model of multiculturalism and ultimately viewing it as a institutional strategy aiding in the management of diversity on US campuses. |