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This pathbreaking collection explores a new concept in world literature studies. Going beyond the binary opposition of "major" and "minor" literatures, the ultraminor encompasses the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities. Using cases as varied as the literatures of Malta, Mauritius, and the Faroe Islands, contemporary Nahuatl novels, Kafka in Prague, and Shakespeare in Naples, the ten essays in this volume take up questions of scale and circulation, the interplay of languages and dialects, and ultraminor writers' resistance to translation and their reliance on it. Ultraminor World Literatures will be of interests to students and scholars of comparative and world literature and to anyone concerned with the ongoing life of unique cultural communities around the world.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Defining the Ultraminor
Bergur Rønne Moberg and David Damrosch
At the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and Translation
Andrea Bachner
Francophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France Daigle
Andrea Cabajsky
Third-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua Literature
Matylda Figlerowicz
Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta
Oliver Friggieri
The Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese Literature
Bergur Rønne Moberg
Life in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor Literature
Matthew Nelson
The Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre Fiction
Rashi Rohatgi
Global Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentino
Elisa Segnini
Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in Malayalam
Bhavya Tiwari
The Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the Ultraminor
Veronika Tuckerová
