2019

Time and Difference in Comparative World Literary History

Sesssion at
XX11 Congress of the ICLA, Macao SAR, China, 2019, July 29-August 2

Chairs:
Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Comparative Literature, Aarhus University)
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Program for the session:

• Chengzhou He (Nanjing University)
  How to Do Things with Drama: A Comparative Approach to the History of 20th Century Chinese Drama
• Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus University)
  Landscapes of Realism: Ideas and strategies of a new project on Realism
• Lipika Das (IIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India)
  The ‘world’ in World Literature : Raising new questions
• Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm University)
  Notes Towards a Decolonial Conceptual History of Literature
• Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Aarhus University)
  Anachronism and Untimeliness. The Transatlantic and African Slavery as a challenge to World Literary History
• Haun Saussy (University of Chicago)
  Concluding Remarks