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Portineria del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Via Verdi, 26 I - 38122 Trento
tel. +39 0461 281300
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Venue: Department of Sociology and Social Research, via Verdi, 26 - Trento, Meeting Room – III floor
Time: 4 pm
Speaker:
- Peggy Levitt - Wellesley College and Harvard University
Chair:
- Paolo Boccagni - Università degli Studi di Trento
In this paper, I explore how “national literature” is used to create, reinvent, and reposition the nation vis á vis the globe. Using the cases of Lebanon, Argentina, and South Korea, I explore how these different kinds of nations produce different kinds of national literatures, who is included as a national writer, and what kinds of work national literature is expected to do. I examine the conditions under which national literature enables countries to cope with immigration and to scale shift, or claim a more prominent position, in the global cultural hierarchy