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Cultures in Contact.

Cultures in Contact. Beyond the Nation State, But how? Reine Meylaerts KULeuven (Belgium) ACLA Conference “Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact,” – Puebla (Mexico) – 19-22/4/2007. Beyond the Nation-State, but how?.

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Cultures in Contact.

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  1. Cultures in Contact. Beyond the Nation State, But how? Reine Meylaerts KULeuven (Belgium) ACLA Conference “Trans, Pan, Inter: Cultures in Contact,” – Puebla (Mexico) – 19-22/4/2007.

  2. Beyond the Nation-State, but how? “The World as India. Translation as a Passport within the Community of Literature” (S. Sontag, TLS, 3/6/2003)

  3. Beyond the Nation-State, but how? A vital global cultural discourse is ancient; only the increasingly settled and bureaucratized nature of academic institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, conjoined with a nasty intensification of ethnocentrism, racism, and nationalism produced the temporary illusion of sedentary, indigenous literary cultures marking sporadic and half-hearted ventures towards the margins. The reality, for most of the past as once again for the present is more about nomads than natives. (Greenblatt, PMLA, 116.1, 2001:59; my emphasis)

  4. Beyond the Nation-State, but how? “Language is the slipperiest of human creations; like its speakers, it does not respect borders, and, like the imagination, it cannot ultimately be predicted or controlled.” (Greenblatt PMLA, 116.1, 2001:62)

  5. Beyond the Nation-State, but how? Models for studying literary interaction in globalised, multilingual worlds?

  6. From observing to analysing: suggestions, models. • Institutionalisation • Internalisation (habitus)

  7. dominant language and culture = elites = institutions = most legitimate literary productionsminoritylanguagesandcultures = lower classes = no/less official institutional status = no/less legitimate literary productionsbilinguals-multilinguals

  8. Language Hierarchies?

  9. From observing to analysing: suggestions, models. • Why not everbody is multilingual? • Why is multilingual writing exceptional? • For whom linguistic/literary barriers are absolute? • For whom linguistic/literary barriers are unexisting?

  10. From observing to analysing: suggestions, models. • Why do translators have a hard life? • Literary cartographies? • Where is the nation?

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