时间：2024年4月16日15：30

地点：仓前校区恕园19-205

主讲内容：

In his article “Globalization and World Literature” (Neohelicon, 38, 251-265, 2011), J. Hillis Miller wrote “world literature’s time has come again” and the need to establish a new discipline accordingly to meet both the opportunities and challenges of globalization, the latter of which he listed as the difficulties associated with defining “literature,” choosing representative works, translation, and so on. It would seem today however that greater difficulties abound.

With this in mind, this talk examines the history and perhaps fate of “world literature,” which in some respects expressed an ideological value produced in the post-national milieu associated with the so-called “end of history” and “new world order” that following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the first Cold War. Given the return however of nationalism, nation-building and national rejuvenation as normative concepts, given the history of War on Terror and national struggles in Ukraine and Palestine, given the return of the nation-state and the increasing dissolution of the European Union, given what some believe is the advent of a new Cold War and the rising existential dangers associated with climate change, we consider whether “world literature” as previously imagined is now “dead” and whether it’s merely experience a difficult transition in a new era. We consider what role it might world literature might play in the construction of a “shared future for humanity,” or a siren call for the possibility of the opposite, post-mortem or not.

主讲人简介：

Josef Gregory Mahoney is Professor of Politics and International Relations at East China Normal University and Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for the Development of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics at Southeast University and the Hainan CGE Peace Development Foundation.