CTIS Research Seminar -Who Counts as an Author? What Is a Text? Reshaping Literary Displacement through Collaboration
| Dates: | 3 April 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Núria Codina Solà |
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This presentation explores how collaborative ways of making literature redefine literary texts as social processes, open up individual and canonical ideas of authorship and create more immediate and relational modes of literary valuation and circulation. Focusing on contexts of migration and displacement and using the Shatila Stories project (2018) as a case in point, I will examine the affordances and limitations of collaboration for emerging refugee authors, highlighting the formal implications of writing together and the role of editors and translators in co-creating the text. The presentation will analyze the interplay between text and context by looking at the political and economic institutions that make the Shatila Stories project possible, pointing to the profound transformations that digital practices of circulation and civil society initiatives typically located outside the cultural field bring to the institution of literature itself.
Speaker
Dr Núria Codina Solà
Role: Assistant professor
Organisation: University of Leuven
Biography: Núria Codina Solà is an assistant professor at the University of Leuven and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature: How Collaboration Is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB), which looks at a wide array of collaborative practices across Europe that create spaces for literary participation of migrants. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Tübingen and is the author of Verflochtene Welten. Transkulturalität in den Werken von Najat El Hachmi, Pius Alibek, Emine Sevgi Özdamar und Feridun Zaimoglu (2018). She has also published in journals such as Interventions, MELUS, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and Textual Practice.
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