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Freitag
06
MAI

14.00 Uhr

World Literature as a „Special Issue”: Magazines and Cold War Internationalism in India

Dr. Francesca Orsini, SOAS, London (UK), Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature

In India, as in other parts of the world, exposure to the world and to world literatures largely took place for readers through the pages of magazines, through translations, reviews, snippets of information, survey articles, and so on. The 1950s and ‘60s were the golden period of magazine publishing in Hindi. Several Hindi magazines devoted to the short story, like Kahānī, Naī Kahāniyāṁ or Sārikā, not only showcased new Hindi literary talent but also invested much effort in translating writings from foreign literatures and from other Indian languages. In the context of the Cold War, competing efforts to promote literatures from one’s own sphere of influence produced a profusion of literary translations in magazine and book form, from which enterprising Hindi editors freely drew. This talk showcases some examples of the magazines' "literary activism", and explores the nexus between the short story, the magazine, and the world.

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