Table Of Content
1. Introduction, Rebecca Braun2. Beginnings: A World History of Authorship, Alexander Beecroft3. Celebrity: On the Different Publics of World Authorship, Rebecca Braun4. Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes, Alexandra Harrington5. Collaboration: Re-thinking Origins and Ownership, Sondra Bacharach6. Commissions: The Politics of Origin and Market, Ra Page7. Communities: Forging the Voices of Poets in Africa, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva8. Death: On Barthes's Images of Authorship without Authority, Benoît Peeters9. Digital Writing: Authorship and Platform, Daniel Punday10. Engagement: Authoring European Futures, Benedict Schofield11. Festivals: Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere, Gisèle Sapiro12. Independence: Online Experimental Fiction in China, Michel Hockx13. Language: Digital Technologies Diversifying World Authorship, Nathalie Carré14. Law: Making Authorial Personhood for the World, César Domínguez15. Media: Channels for New Kinds of Authorship in Africa, Chidi Ukwu16. Nation: Authors as Exemplars of Political Communities, Tobias Boes17. Networks: Poetry, Festivals, and Information Technology in Latin America, 1993-2017, Luis Bravo18. Performance: Worlding Literature through Spoken-Word Poetry, Emily Spiers19. Popularity: Authorship and Audiences over Time, Susan Bassnett20. Prizes: A Personal View of the UK Awards Industry Today, Daniel Hahn21. Readers: The Space Between Us All, Zahid Hussain22. Representation: The Role of the Literary Agent in India, Sridhar Aghalaya in conversation with Emily Spiers23. Self-Publishing: Transforming Ways of Writing and Reading, Jeffrey R. Di Leo24. Translation: Michael Krüger and Paul Muldoon in Conversation, Karen Leeder25. Universities: Creating Authors through Higher Education, George Green and Graham Mort26. Voice: I am My Own Song From Offstage, Ulrike Almut Sandig
Synopsis
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Booksellers, authors, and academics have been talking about world literature since Goethe made the term fashionable in the early nineteenth century. Yet amidst all the talk of books that 'circulate' and literature as a kind of universal property that can function as a 'window on the world', how do we account for the people who live in real places, and who write, translate, market, and read the texts that travel on these global journeys? World Authorship breaks new ground by showing how to bring together the real-world contexts of authorship with the literary worlds of fiction. Written by world-leading academics and creative professionals including authors, translators, publishers, editors, prize jurors, and literary festival organizers, World Authorship updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. It covers keyword aspects of world authorship, grounding them in the study of actual literary texts to illuminate how literature is shared and made in different parts of the world and at different times in history. At the heart of all contributions, however, is one key question: where is the human element in world literature? By covering everything from 'Beginnings' to 'Voice', World Authorship provides the answer., World Authorship brings together the real-world contexts of authorship and the literary worlds of fiction, and updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. At the heart of all contributions is one key question: where is the human element in world literature?, The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge, scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.Booksellers, authors, and academics have been talking about world literature since Goethe made the term fashionable in the early nineteenth century. Yet amidst all the talk of books that 'circulate' and literature as a kind of universal property that can function as a 'window on the world', how do we account for the people who live in real places, and who write, translate, market, and read the texts that travel on these global journeys? World Authorship breaks new ground by showing how to bring together the real-world contexts of authorship with the literary worlds of fiction.Written by world-leading academics and creative professionals including authors, translators, publishers, editors, prize jurors, and literary festival organizers, World Authorship updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. It covers keyword aspects of world authorship, grounding them in the study of actual literary texts to illuminate how literature is shared and made in different parts of the world and at different times in history. At the heart of all contributions, however, is one key question: where is the human element in world literature? By covering everything from 'Beginnings' to 'Voice', World Authorship provides the answer.