Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents
Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature
Speaker: Rosario Hubert
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese | Trinity College
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong
Assistant Professor | Department of Comparative Literature | The University of Hong Kong
DATE: 9 OCT 2024 (WED) 10:00–11:30 am (HKT)
VENUE: ON ZOOM
All are welcome. Registration is required.
In the absence of specialized programs of study, abstract discussions of China in Latin America took shape in contingent critical infrastructures built at the crossroads of the literary market, cultural diplomacy, and commerce. “Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature” understands translation as a material act of transfer, decentering the authority of the text and connecting seemingly untranslatable cultural traditions. In this book, chinoiserie, “coolie” testimonies, Maoist prints, visual poetry, and Cold War memoirs compose a massive archive of primary sources that cannot be read or deciphered with the conventional tools of literary criticism. Advocating for indiscipline as a core method of comparative literary studies, “Disoriented Disciplines” challenges us to interrogate the traditional contours of the archives and approaches that define the geopolitics of knowledge.
Rosario Hubert is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Trinity College, where she works on the crossover of world literature, geography, and the visual arts. Her book “Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature” (Northwestern University Press, 2023) was the recipient of the ACLA Helen Tartar First Book Subvention award and was funded by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently working on a new project about poetics of the inhospitable.
The series is coordinated by Prof. Su Yun Kim (suyunkim@hku.hk), Prof. Pei-yin Lin (pylin@hku.hk), and Prof. Alvin Wong (akhwong@hku.hk), and is supported by the School of Chinese, School of Humanities, and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.
Registration link: https://bit.ly/MEAL9Oct2024
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