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RCC is pleased to announce this conference organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
The seminar will address complicated receptions of foreign literary texts in Spanish and Latin American literatures and contexts, as well as how Spanish and Latin American literatures have had complex receptions in the US in the 20th and 21st centuries. It examines the ways in which these friction spaces occur in relation to the contextual differences; in other words, how differences in taste, markets, cultural contexts, the Academy, or languages hinder, or draw the paths of circulation, rejection, or reluctance to texts. These friction spaces simultaneously enable and condition the circulation of texts, delocalizing while simultaneously relocalizing their readings. It is precisely at this problematic point where literary texts are substantially released from their contexts, creating new contextual relations. By establishing a dialogue between studies on value, academy, market, and taste with those of World Literature, the seminar seeks to broaden the space of World Literature in the Spanish and Latin American contexts and literatures.
Sponsor(s): Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Instituto Cervantes, Marie Curie Actions, Real Colegio Complutense.
Contact: Marta Puxan Oliva
You can download the program of the conference for further information about the event.
Please, note that the second day the event will take place in the Dana-Palmer Seminar Room.
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