2022: Abstracts: Re–Imagining Literatures of The World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins

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On July 24-29, 2022, the XXIII Congress of the International Association of Comparative Literature “Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins” was held in Tbilisi. More than a thousand scientists from many countries of the world participated in the congress. This edition is the collection of the abstracts presented at the congress.

The collection includes abstracts of participants of the XXIII Congress of the International Association of Comparative Literature. Publishing organization - Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA). Scientific fields and direction: Comparative literary studies

Published: 2022-11-14

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Art Criticism and Creation in European Literatures

Future Directions in Comics Studies

Code – switching with the Unknown

Urban Borderlands – Comparative Perspectives

The Political Aesthetics of Agricultural Protest in the 21st Century

Re – Imagining Plurilingual Art Practices

Géographies des Suds dans les littératures postcoloniales

South Asian Visions of Africa and African/Diasporic Literatures

Between Chaos and Discipline: Iranian Comparative Literature

Pandemic Imaginations

Global Avant – gardes: Centre, Periphery and Beyond

Chinese Influences on Modern and Contemporary European and American Literature and Literary Theories

Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial and Neocolonial Experiences:Rewriting Cultural History

Theorizing Marginality

Peace, Global Blues, and National Songs

Imagining Cultural Transfers – Poetics of Cultural Contact, Circulation and Exchange

World Literature and National Literature

Re – emergence of the Realist Novel in East – Central Europe during Post – Stali

Socialist Realism – Soviet Intentions and Receptions in the Exploited Worlds

Kabbalist Literatures of Modernity

Literary Resolutions and Ethical Conflicts

Transnationalism and the Languages/Literatures of the Global South: South Asian Perspectives

Characters without Names: the Anonymous and the Crowds

Texts and Visions Across Genres and Media: Re – thinking Arab Cultural History

On Our Post – Mediatic Bodies

Thinking the present from the past

Translation and Reparation

“West – East” Dichotomy and Russian Culture: Literary and Cultural Paradigms

The Place of Asia in Comparative Literature: A Panel on Method

Translation of Differences: Lost in Translation, Found in Translation

Pedagogy of Comparative literature: Re – Imagining Literatures of the World

The Global Novel: Crossing Circulation and Poetics

Small and Minority Literatures and Literary Historiography

Two Centuries of Colonial and Postcolonial Georgia

Narrative, Nation, and World: Contemporary Women’s Writing from Japan

Cultural Exchange along the Silk Roads: Reading Central Asia through South Asian

Futures for Comparative Literary Research

Forms, Genres, Media in Baroque and Neo – Baroque: Intermedial, comparative, and

The Sacred and the Profane: Intersections between Religion and Literature

"The Knight in the Panther's Skin" in the Context of World Civilization

Expressions of Widowhood across Cultures: Social Constructions and Contestation

The Interaction Semiotics of Cinema and Text

Mutual Learning among Civilizations through Comparative Literature

Comparative Literary Studies in Georgia: Challenges and Perspectives

How Can Literature Change the Geography? European Globality and the Black Sea/Ge

Comparative Literature and Oriental Literary Theory

Cross – Cultural Matches: Beyond Medievality

(Re)Mapping Gender

Identity and Otherness: A Comparative Overview of Basque and Georgian Literature

Joint Session by Korea East – West Comparative Literature Association (KEASTWEST

Special Session - "Presidents" Session

Individual Sessions: Digital Culture Media, Transmedia, Intermedia

Individual Sessions: Words and Images Crossing Literary and Critical Borders

Global South and Global North

Minorities and/in Literature

Translating Difference The other in Other Words

Minor Literature, Small Literatures, Literature in Small Nations

Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial and Neocolonial Experiences

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Literature and Culture

The Post-Soviet Literary Space and the World after Cold War

Next Gen

Literature facing the challenges of the Anthropocene

Literature facing the challenges of racial divides, re-imagining justice

Literature facing linguistic challenges today