Seminar: Stefan Helgesson: World literature?

Stefan Helgesson will speak about “World Literature? Some Alternatives for Transnational Literary Studies” at a seminar in the Ørecomm Open Seminar Series to be held at K3, Malmö University, 3 March 2009, 9:15 – 11 am. The seminar will be webcast.

Stefan Helgesson is lecturer and researcher in comparative literature at Uppsala University, Sweden, and literary critic at Dagens Nyheter. He is the writer of several books on Southern African literature, including his PhD dissertation “Sports of Culture: Writing the resistant subject in South Africa” (1999) and the recently published “Transnationalism in Southern African Literature” (2009). He has been one of the editors of the four-volume “Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective” (2006).

If you are not able to come in person to the seminar, it will be webcast on the ComDev portal: www.k3.mah.se/comdev (GMT 8.15-10 am). In order to access the live lecture function (and archive), you just need to apply for membership (click on the link in the left menu!).

As a preparation for the seminar you are recommended to read the introductory chapter in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,  Mapping World Literature. New York: Continuum, 2008.