Conférence donnée par Robert JC Young dans le cadre du séminaire "Littératures et théories postcoloniales".
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.
Catégories: Séminaire Littératures et théories postcoloniales
Mot-clés : Littérature, Histoire, Langues, Langage, société, post-colonialisme, Goethe, colonialisme
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Robert JC Young est l'un des plus importants théoriciens des postcolonial studies. Il est actuellement Julius Silver Professor d'Anglais et Littérature Comparée à New York University et éditeur du journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
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