The Dead Ends of Decolonization, or Faith in the Literary?

IF 0.1 4区文学 0 LITERATURE

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-03-12 DOI:10.3368/CL.61.1.118

Asha Rogers

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NESCO is widely recognized as a formidable institutional protagonist in world literary culture, albeit at a remove from the day-to-day transactions of the contemporary literary world. Commissioning large-scale translation projects, intervening over legal copyright, appointing literary and intellectual heavyweights from Claude Levi-Strauss to the Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, UNESCO has been a considerable force in the modern history of writing and reading. Its vulnerability to forces of politicization―notoriously, the threats of divestment by some member states after UNESCO decided to grant membership to Palestine in 2011―offsets its sheer size as an international cultural organization. Given these things, it is surprising that UNESCO rarely makes more than cameo appearances in literary studies.1 Sarah Brouillette, a critic who has led much of the recent debate on literature’s imbrications in global capitalism, is well positioned to respond to this situation. Her sociological diagnoses of contemporary literature and culture in Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007) and Literature and the

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非殖民化的死胡同，还是文学信仰？

NESCO被广泛认为是世界文学文化中一个令人敬畏的制度主角，尽管它与当代文学世界的日常事务相去甚远。联合国教科文组织委托开展大规模翻译项目，干预合法版权，任命克劳德·李维·斯特劳斯等文学和知识界重量级人物加入伯明翰当代文化研究中心，在现代写作和阅读史上发挥了重要作用。它容易受到政治化力量的影响——众所周知，在2011年联合国教科文组织决定授予巴勒斯坦成员资格后，一些成员国威胁要撤资——抵消了它作为一个国际文化组织的庞大规模。考虑到这些因素，联合国教科文组织很少在文学研究中客串亮相，这令人惊讶。1莎拉·布鲁伊莱特是一位评论家，她领导了最近关于全球资本主义中文学的争论，她完全有能力应对这种情况。她在《全球文坛的后殖民作家》（2007）和《文学与文化》中对当代文学与文化的社会学诊断

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Literature publishes scholarly essays on contemporary writing in English, interviews with established and emerging authors, and reviews of recent critical books in the field. The journal welcomes articles on multiple genres, including poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, new media and digital literature, and graphic narrative. CL published the first articles on Thomas Pynchon and Susan Howe and the first interviews with Margaret Drabble and Don DeLillo; we also helped to introduce Kazuo Ishiguro, Eavan Boland, and J.M. Coetzee to American readers. As a forum for discussing issues animating the range of contemporary literary studies, CL features the full diversity of critical practices.