The Locations of (World) Literature
Perspectives from Africa and South Asia

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Modernisme post-colonial

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Monday June 19^th

Chair : Claire Joubert (Paris 8)

9h 30 : Introduction by Francesca Orsini and Laetitia Zecchini

9h 45-10h 45 : World visions

Xavier Garnier (Paris 3 / THALIM) “World Visions in Swahili Literature”
Francesca Orsini (SOAS, University of London) “World Literature, Indian views”

11h-12h : Travelling literatures

Soofia Siddique (Freie Universität Berlin) “Worlds of Advice : Going Places with Nazir Ahmad”
Fatima Burney (SOAS, University of London) “Oriental Bards and the Figuration of Wandering in ‘World Literature’ : Receptions of Hafez and Persianate Poetics”

Chair : Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III)

14h-15h : Refractions, connections

Karin Barber (University of Birmingham) “Print Culture and the Representation of India in early twentieth-century Lagos”
Sara Marzagora (SOAS, University of London) “Amharic Literature, Ethiopian History and the global ; Käbbädä Mikael’s worldscapes (1950s-1960s)”

15h 30-17h : Worlding : debates, writing, translation

Mourad Yelles (INALCO-LACNAD) “Littérature-Monde : Alger contre-enquête”
Tristan Leperlier (EHESS) “Nationalisation and Worldisation of Algerian Literature : Timimoum of Rachid Boudjedra”
Amatoritsero Ede (MISR, Makerere University, Uganda) “The Untranslatibility of African Language Literature”

Tuesday June 20^th

Chair : Xavier Garnier (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)

9h 30-10 : 30 : Reshaping cartographies through literature

Karima Laachir (SOAS, University of London) “Whose Significant Geography ? History from Below in A Lahbibi’s The Journeys of ‘Abdi(‎2013)”
Elara Bertho (Paris 3) “Cartography of Eroticism : Reshaping geographic categories”

11h-12h : Communities : beyond geographical assignations ?

Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University) “Thinking the Unthinkable : Everintermutuomergent Communities of Letters”
Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS/THALIM) “Practices, constructions and deconstructions of ‘world literature’ and ‘Indian literature’ : Two Illustrations”

Chair : Catherine Servan-Schreiber (CEIAS-EHESS)

14h-15h : Networks : Very local and/or very transnational

Clarissa Vierke (University of Bayreuth) “Utterly Local ? On the Position of Swahili Popular Poetry in Dar es Salaam”
Mélanie Bourlet (INALCO) “Transnational Literary Networks and Local Dynamics : The Case of Pulaar Literature”

15h 30-16h 30 : General discussion