Nobel Prize Winning World Literature

A key concern of recent theoretical orientations in the development of “World Literature” as a discipline has been the question of accessibility to literatures in minor languages, which is to say of literal and metaphorical translatability, even transparency. This essay explores the challenge posed by the occlusion of the possible intertextual influence of works in such languages that are evident only as a trace in texts that now seem indisputably part of a canon of World Literature. What happens when the engagement of writers in this canon with cultural production in languages adjacent to those in which they themselves principally operate is not evident to an increasingly global community of scholars, and perhaps not even evidenced in an author’s archive (whether this is understood to be a material collection or indeed a virtual space conceptualized as the literary ecosystem in which an author has developed)? This essay addresses these questions with reference to the work of South African-born Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee, and to the problem posed by some of his work’s (and his archive’s) others, here specifically Afrikaners and the work of Afrikaans-language writers. This consideration has implications not only for the current shape of Coetzee studies, but for that of World Literature more broadly, presenting something of a limit-case for the translation metaphor that directs some of its formulations as disciplinary field.

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Impact of Globalization in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre

The Creative Launcher ◽

10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.16 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 145-151

Author(s):

Dr. Girish Kousadikar

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

Call Center ◽

World Literature ◽

Call Centre ◽

Young Generation ◽

Pulitzer Prize ◽

Common Phenomenon ◽

The World

Literary genius of Indians has been widely appreciated all over the world. The prestigious titles starting from Nobel Prize to Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize are bestowed to Indian writers. It becomes very common phenomenon to nominate Indian writers for such honors in the world literature. Chetan Bhagat emerged as youth icon to contrive undercurrents of transformation evident in young generation of India. This paper is a modest attempt to trace out impact of globalization in Bhagat’s novel One Night @the Call Center.

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From “Poland’s Genius” to the World as “a living, single entity”: World, Literature, and Writer’s Duty in Lectures of Polish Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1905–2019)

The Polish Review ◽

10.5406/polishreview.66.2.0128 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 128

Author(s):

Zechenter

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

World Literature ◽

Single Entity ◽

The World ◽

Living Single

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Comments on Per Wästberg’s Presentation Speech for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

English Language and Literature Studies ◽

10.5539/ells.v6n3p21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Weiqin Liu ◽

Chengfa Yu

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

World Literature ◽

Chinese Society ◽

Mo Yan ◽

Work World

<p>In Per Wästberg’s presentation speech for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, some information should deserve the attention of the Chinese academic circle. There is some truth in his compliments of Mo Yan, such as “he is a poet”, “he is a wonderful portrayer of nature”, “he knows everything and describes everything especially about a forgotten peasant world”, “in his work, world literature speaks with a voice that drowns out most contemporaries”. Wästberg also offers his interpretation and review of some of Mo Yan’s works. However, the speech inevitably shows Westerners’ misunderstanding of Mo Yan and his works and their ideological prejudice against China and the Chinese society.</p>

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One Text, Many Literary Traditions: The Multidimensionality of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

Afrika Focus ◽

10.1163/2031356x-34020004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 262-282

Author(s):

Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega

Keyword(s):

Nobel Prize ◽

World Literature ◽

Postcolonial Literature ◽

African Literature ◽

National Literature ◽

Critical Inquiry ◽

Literary Traditions ◽

Dramatic Text ◽

The Rich

Abstract Death and the King’s Horseman, published in 1975, is undoubtedly Wole Soyinka’s most acclaimed play. When awarding the playwright the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1986, the Committee specifically cited it as a “drama of existence”. Many literary critics have written about the play from multifarious perspectives. However, the dramatic text is still open to multidimensional interpretations that can further illuminate the rich texture of this canonical work. My study contextualises this dramatic masterpiece as yielding to a form of critical inquiry that makes it cohere with definitions of various literary traditions. It can be interrogated as Yoruba/Nigerian national literature, African literature, postcolonial literature, and world literature. It is, therefore, in this effort to use many approaches to see the play as a holistic text that I have chosen to interrogate it as “one text, many literary traditions”.

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