Master class - Tijana Przulj (English literature)
Jopi Nyman (University of Eastern Finland) is giving a master class for PhD candidate Tijana Przulj based on material from the candidate's thesis: "Contemporary Literary Negotiations in the Aesthetic Spaces of the Transnational"
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Abstract:
This dissertation seeks to identify what can be termed transnational aesthetics, and explore how this aesthetics manifests itself across varied works of transnational literature - two novels (Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and How to Get into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak), a film (My Friend the Polish Girl), and a play (The Last Days of Limehouse). These texts address a variety of transnational spaces as their protagonists navigate their respective transnational experiences. My theoretical framework includes the notions of longing and affinity, memory, liminality, and diasporic intimacy. Based on this framework, I formulate the theoretical concept of transnational matricial aesthetics to show that an aesthetics of literary transnationality can successfully be identified and described in spite of its resistance to easy containment and the tendency of its strands to extend beyond representation and into the way readers interact and/or are meant to interact with these texts.
Those who would like to read more, can contact Tijana Przulj: tijana.przulj@uib.no