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  • 1.
    Edfeldt, Chatarina
    et al.
    Dalarna University, Sweden.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit. Södertörn University, Sweden.
    Hedberg, Andreas
    Department of Literature, Uppsala university, Sweden.
    Lindqvist, Yvonne
    Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm university, Sweden.
    Schwartz, Cecilia
    Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm university, Sweden.
    Tenngart, Paul
    Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund university, Sweden.
    Northern Crossings: Translation, Circulation and the Literary Semi-periphery2022Bok (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish publishing field as recurring examples to describe and analyse the role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case.

    Consisting of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization – which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that have not yet been thoroughly explored.

  • 2.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism2020Inngår i: Med andra ord, ISSN 1104-4462, nr 105, s. 26-28Artikkel, omtale (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 3.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    ‘That little space’: Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Global Literary Marketplace2020Inngår i: Past Imaginings: Studies in Honor of Åke Bergvall / [ed] Maria Holmgren Troy, Fredrik Svensson, Andreas Nyström, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2020, s. 143-160Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The transformation of the publishing world in recent decades—which includes, among other things, the increasing significance of large retail outlets, the emergence and establishment of literary agents, and the merger of publishing houses into large media corporations—has been amply documented. Among the consequences for postcolonial literary fiction, and African English-language fiction, which is the subject here, are increasing use of the author as a public figure and marketing device, and heightened expectations on cultural representativity that link authors to particular places and cultures. With a focus on the initial and middle phases of his career, this article discusses the ways in which East African author Abdulrazak Gurnah has responded to such pressures in his novels and in essays and articles. It shows how both the form and the content of Gurnah’s writing exemplify a double effort to complicate ideas which frame authors and their texts through culture-specific identities and the seemingly opposite, generalizing notion of the postcolonial’ author which flattens history—a strategy of ‘self-authorization’ which can be seen as Gurnah’s critical resistance towards received categories used in both book marketing and postcolonial authorship. In a further twist, this resistance is in some tension with Gurnah’s choice to write in English and use an unmarked linguistic style and register since these seemingly align with marketing interests and enable easy translation which facilitates the global circulation of his books.

  • 4.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    ‘That little space’: Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Global Literary Marketplace2020Inngår i: Nordic Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1502-7694, E-ISSN 1654-6970, Vol. 19, nr 4, s. 150-168Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    The transformation of the publishing world in recent decades—which includes, among other things, the increasing significance of large retail outlets, the emergence and establishment of literary agents, and the merger of publishing houses into large media corporations—has been amply documented. Among the consequences for postcolonial literary fiction, and African English-language fiction, which is the subject here, are increasing use of the author as a public figure and marketing device, and heightened expectations on cultural representativity that link authors to particular places and cultures. With a focus on the initial and middle phases of his career, this article discusses the ways in which East African author Abdulrazak Gurnah has responded to such pressures in his novels and in essays and articles. It shows how both the form and the content of Gurnah’s writing exemplify a double effort to complicate ideas which frame authors and their texts through culture-specific identities and the seemingly opposite, generalizing notion of the postcolonial’ author which flattens history—a strategy of ‘self-authorization’ which can be seen as Gurnah’s critical resistance towards received categories used in both book marketing and postcolonial authorship. In a further twist, this resistance is in some tension with Gurnah’s choice to write in English and use an unmarked linguistic style and register since these seemingly align with marketing interests and enable easy translation which facilitates the global circulation of his books.

  • 5.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    World Literary Studies and East African Anglophone Literature2018Inngår i: World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange / [ed] Edited by Stefan Helgesson, Annika Mörte Alling, Yvonne Lindqvist, and Helena Wulff, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018, s. 383-395Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
  • 6.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    World literature, Kampala 1961-1968 : literary circulation in Transition2019Inngår i: Etudes littéraires africaines, ISSN 0769-4563, nr 48, s. 55-72Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
    Abstract [en]

    This article starts from two premises: that the almost exclusive reliance on the novel in several of the dominant elaborations of world literary models gives a very partial view of the global circulation of literature and, consequently, that much can be gained through analyses of complementary or alternative media and, secondly, that certain arguments within postcolonial literary studies on the circulation and audiences of African literature are inadequately grounded empirically. Taking the literary magazine Transition as an example – and more precisely its first, Ugandan, period –, this article seeks to make a contribution to both fields. Through discussion of the publication’s content and its circulation pattern, it shows that most of the authors published came from African countries, but also included British, American and Caribbean contributors; that poetry was its most represented literary genre, even as the magazine published seminal prose material; that the magazine’s readers, many of whom interacted actively, were found across the African continent and in Europe and the U.S.A.; and that Transition combined characteristics of "little" and "big" magazines. These empirical findings, the article argues, raise questions about key issues in world literary as well as postcolonial literary conceptualization – such as the status of the nation or the national field in world literary studies, the limitations of the notion of "literature" they use, and the relationship between (post-)colonial and "imperial" channels for production and circulation of literary artefacts.

  • 7. Falk, Erik
    et al.
    Gustafsson Pech, Daniel
    Världslitteraturen och det oöversättbara2015Inngår i: Med andra ord, ISSN 1104-4462, nr 84, s. 4-11Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 8.
    Falk, Erik
    et al.
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    Wallin, Birgitta
    "För den som behöver en plats att rymma till är Lagos perfekt": möte med romanförfattaren Chibundu Onuzu2020Inngår i: Karavan, ISSN 1404-3874, nr 2, s. 66-74Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 9.
    Falk, Erik
    et al.
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit.
    Wallin, Birgitta
    "Vår föreställningsförmåga gör världen ny igen": intervju med Ben Okri2020Inngår i: Karavan, ISSN 1404-3874, nr 2, s. 48-55Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm))
  • 10.
    Spencer, Lynda Gichanda
    et al.
    Rhodes University, South Africa.
    Falk, Erik
    Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Research Unit. Södertörn University, Sweden.
    Gendering the Popular: Making a Case for FEMRITE in Uganda and Beyond2022Inngår i: Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture / [ed] Grace A Musila, London: Routledge, 2022, s. 110-131Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
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