What is a literary history of the present? There are many ways to imagine such a project and its debt to Foucauldian genealogy, from accounts of how literature writes history to how the notion of literature is a historical aspect of the present. This essay, part of the upcoming workshop, “The Literary 1980s in the MENA: Towards a History of the Present”, asks what trauma has come to name in Arabic literary studies since the 1980s.
It is in the eighteenth century that Russian political language was born. The digital project “The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works of the Eighteenth Century” coordinated...
Juliane Braun is currently a Tandem Fellow in the History of Knowledge & Knowledge Cultures at the German Historical Institute Washington. Her first book, titled “Creole Drama: Theatre and Society...
by Stephanie Fleischmann and Ana Nenadović From July 6 to 7 2017, the International Symposium América Latina – África del Norte – España. Traslaciones culturales, intelectuales y literarias organised...
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research is a platform for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in transregional exchange and research on current issues. TRAFO is the blog of the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin) and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (Bonn).
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