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Dr. Rebecca Gould: "Aesthetics and Politics in the Literatures in the Caucasus"

06.02.2017 um 18:00 Uhr

Abstract

What does Comparative Literature look like from the vantage point of the multi-lingual and multi-confessional Caucasus? Moving from the classical Persian poetics of incarceration to the modern Georgian literature of anticolonial insurgency, this lecture examines the relationship between the poet and the state in the Persian, Georgian, and related literatures of the Caucasus. From the Persian poet Khaqani of Shirvan (d. 1199) to the Georgian poet Titsian Tabidze (d. 1937), the writers I discuss used poetry to engage with the politics of Christian-Muslim difference on imperial borderlands. I consider how their respective poetics illuminate the relationship between aesthetics and politics, within the Caucasus and globally

Rebecca Gould is a specialist in the literatures of the Persian and Islamic world (especially the Caucasus) and in Translation Studies, broadly understood. She has studied at Berkeley and City University New York and received her PhD from Columbia University, New York. Currently she is a Reader in Translation Studies & Comparative Literature at Bristol University. Her first monograph, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016), examined literary memorializations of anticolonial violence in Georgian, Daghestani Arabic, and the Russophone literature of the Caucasus. Alongside her work on classical and modern Persian, Russian, Georgian, and Arabic literatures, she maintains an active interest in the intersections of anthropology and social theory with textual methodologies. Rebecca Gould has published numerous articles and book chapters along with translations from the Persian and Georgian into English and received international and national awards.

Zeit: Montag, den 6. Februar 2017 um 18:00 Uhr

Ort: Prof.-Huber-Pl. 2 (W) - Lehrturm - W401


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