번역불가능성과 탈소유화: 새로운 지구적 세계문학의 가능성
Untranslatability and Dispossession: The Possibility of a New World Literature
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This paper questions the hegemonic construction of world literature, suggesting the ways in which it can be reconstituted in a critique of translatability and ownability. It examines how the failure of translation and possession can contribute to decentering the hegemonic global system and paving the way for a new world literature open to sharing in difference. Ultimately, it proposes the strategic use of untranslatability and dispossession for the practices of a new world literature in conjunction with Gayatri Spivak’s concept of planetarity. To that end, it problematizes and develops the definition of world literature proposed by David Damrosch to discuss ways of looking at untranslatability and dispossession from the perspectives of resistance and transformative agency. The limits and possibilities of world literature are explored in the context of texts by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, R. K. Narayan, Lewis Nkosi, Edgar Allan Poe, and anonymous collective writers, while I draw upon the theories of Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Bill Ashcroft, Franco Moretti, among others. The questions raised in Emily Apter’s controversial new book Against World Literature are also examined in a critical manner. This paper aims to demonstrate that the desirable ‘world’ of world literature is a place of constant negotiations where it is possible to counter the homogenization of difference, the minimization of alterity, and the exclusive ownership of literature
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This paper questions the hegemonic construction of world literature, suggesting the ways in which it can be reconstituted in a critique of translatability and ownability. It examines how the failure of translation and possession can contribute to decentering the hegemonic global system and paving the way for a new world literature open to sharing in difference. Ultimately, it proposes the strategic use of untranslatability and dispossession for the practices of a new world literature in conjunction with Gayatri Spivak’s concept of planetarity. To that end, it problematizes and develops the definition of world literature proposed by David Damrosch to discuss ways of looking at untranslatability and dispossession from the perspectives of resistance and transformative agency. The limits and possibilities of world literature are explored in the context of texts by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, R. K. Narayan, Lewis Nkosi, Edgar Allan Poe, and anonymous collective writers, while I draw upon the theories of Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Bill Ashcroft, Franco Moretti, among others. The questions raised in Emily Apter’s controversial new book Against World Literature are also examined in a critical manner. This paper aims to demonstrate that the desirable ‘world’ of world literature is a place of constant negotiations where it is possible to counter the homogenization of difference, the minimization of alterity, and the exclusive ownership of literature
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