Northern Crossings
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- ISBN 9781501374289
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.
Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Chatarina Edfeldt is Senior Lecturer of Portuguese Literature at Dalarna University, Sweden.
Erik Falk is Collaboration Coordinator at Södertörn University, Sweden.
Andreas Hedberg is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Yvonne Lindqvist is Professor of Translation Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Cecilia Schwartz is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Paul Tenngart is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Lund University, Sweden.
