{"id":5379,"date":"2016-01-14T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2016-01-14T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:42:06","slug":"patricia-novillo-corvalan-to-talk-at-goethe-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/14\/patricia-novillo-corvalan-to-talk-at-goethe-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Novillo-Corval\u00e1n to talk at Goethe University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corval\u00e1n<\/a> from the Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> is to be guest speaker at a symposium entitled \u2018Envisioning World Literature from the Global South\u2019 at Goethe University<\/a> in Frankfurt, Germany on 20-21 January 2016.<\/p>\n

Patricia\u2019s paper entitled \u2018South-to-South Encounters: Pablo Neruda and Ceylonese Modernism\u2019 explores the formation and consolidation of modernist dialogues located in the global South by examining the cultural networks fostered by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during his consular career in South Asia in the late 1920s.<\/p>\n

Neruda was assigned to diplomatic positions in British Burma (now Myanmar) and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), followed by brief consular stints in Java (now Jakarta) and Singapore, over an intensive period of five years (1927-1931). Neruda\u2019s complex \u00e9migr\u00e9 status is problematised by the fact that he moved from a former Spanish colony on the \u2018fringes\u2019 of the Western world (he usually referred to his native Temuco as an \u2018obscure province\u2019) to a succession of British colonial outposts. In so doing, Neruda challenges the notion that aesthetic innovation is the product of the West through a migratory trajectory that moves from South America to South Asia, slotting in European capitals such as Paris and Madrid as fleeting stopovers, rather than final destinations. Such cultural encounters in the global South map out a non-Eurocentric migratory movement that rethinks the production of modernism from colonial and postcolonial spaces that can significantly revise and expand the contours of modernism.<\/p>\n

By skipping over the centres of modernism, Neruda foregrounds the creative potential of the global South, while showing that these south-to-south encounters can reshape and potentially enrich cultural relations with the global North. In agreement with Susan Stanford Friedman, this paper proposes a \u2018planetary\u2019 mode of reading that tracks \u2018the circulation of aesthetic modernisms on a transnational landscape\u2019 in order to recuperate vital networks of cultural exchange between former European colonies, as well as the reception and circulation of Neruda\u2019 poetry in the metropolitan centres of modernism.<\/p>\n

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For further details of the symposium or to\u00a0attend, please register by email: loeber@em.uni-frankfurt.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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