{"id":8502,"date":"2018-03-29T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2018-08-30T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:32:58","slug":"british-academy-award-for-patricia-novillo-corvalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/29\/british-academy-award-for-patricia-novillo-corvalan\/","title":{"rendered":"British Academy award for Patricia Novillo-Corvalan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/novillo-corvalan.html\">Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalan<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, has won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/index.cfm\">British Academy<\/a> Small Research Grant for a project entitled \u2018Indo-Argentine Cultural Networks: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Solidarity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia&#8217;s project explores the cultural relations between countries located in the (so-called) Global South, focusing on India and Argentina. Originally coined in what has been recognised as the first Asian-African conference held in Bandung in 1955, the geopolitical phrase Global South is of extreme relevance to the recent transnational \u2018turn\u2019 in literary studies that has problematised Western-centric paradigms by foregrounding less-studied geographical areas across the globe. She examines these cultural encounters through a case study: the relationship between the Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the Argentine writer and feminist Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979). Her aim is to elucidate how south-south networks prioritise cultural enrichment and solidarity through a shared understanding of questions of colonialism, education, and aesthetic experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>By reading Tagore and Ocampo as part of a comparative horizon that deploys a Global South epistemology, as well as by positioning it in relation to the outward-looking, multidirectional cultural models of literature they proposed: vishva-sahitya (Tagore) and Sur (Ocampo) &#8211; while remaining aware of the fraught, complex relationship their countries sustained with imperial Britain &#8211; Patricia seeks to situate them as decisive figures that can significantly enrich and enlarge our understanding of modernist practices in the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about BA\/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, please see the page here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants\">www.britac.ac.uk\/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature, has won a British Academy Small Research Grant for a project entitled \u2018Indo-Argentine Cultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/29\/british-academy-award-for-patricia-novillo-corvalan\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[206947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}