Pour la prochaine séance du séminaire "Littératures et théories postcoloniales" le samedi 1er décembre de 10h à 12h (Amphithéâtre Rataud, 45 rue d'Ulm) nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Robert Young qui présentera une communication intitulée " World Literature and Language anxiety ".
Vous trouverez ci-joint un résumé de celle-ci. Robert Young interviendra en anglais mais le débat pourra se poursuivre en français.
Ce séminaire est ouvert à tous.
Laetitia Zecchini et Lise Guilhamon
World Literature and Language Anxiety
In this talk I shall argue that Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur is marked by a language anxiety that also forms the specific condition of contemporary postcolonial literatures and distinguishes them from World Literature in general. Taking issue with Pascale Casanova’s simple assimilation of “minor” with “postcolonial” literatures, and her more recent criticism of the postcolonial for being political at the expense of the aesthetic, I shall consider the postcolonial relation to language with specific examples that will include VS Naipaul and contemporary writers from the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Robert JC Young est l'un des plus importants théoriciens des postcolonial studies . Il est actuellement Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature à New York University et éditeur du journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies . Il a notamment publié: The Idea of English Ethnicity (Blackwell, 2008); Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2003); Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell, 2001); Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (London/New York: Routledge, 1995), White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (Routledge, 1990).
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