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@article{ART001263342},
author={Park, Seonjoo},
title={Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2008},
number={59},
pages={119-146},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119}

TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Seonjoo
TI - Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2008
VL - null
IS - 59
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 119
EP - 146
SN - 1598-3021
AB - The purpose of this article is to conceive ‘world literature’ using translation theory to understand the world and literature in a broader context in the age of globalization. Translation is key concept to figure out the nature and the form of ‘world literature’ that we need to re-imagine our world outside of the dominant narrative of ‘universality’ which the West has produced and spread all over the world. Translation opens up a possibility where another type of ‘world,’ another type of ‘modernity,’ and another type of ‘other’－in other words, a perspective which could be critical and independent of Eurocentrism－can be articulated, with its constant mobility, disconnectivity, and negativity. The unique mechanism of translation in both linguistic and epistemological terms makes the easy assimilation of the idea of ‘world’ into the Eurocentric universality quite hard. Translation inscribes mobility and relationality on the idea of ‘world literature,’ making it tentative, insecure, incommensurable. It presents the world as hopelessly fragmented, disconnected, and doomed to fail, not only to reveal the failure of the entire system of signification of Eurocentric nationalism and universalism, but also to anticipate a birth of new terrain of ‘world literature.’
KW - world literature;translation;Eurocentrism;universality;mobility; disconnectivity;failure
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119
ER -

Park, Seonjoo. (2008). Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 59, 119-146.

Park, Seonjoo. 2008, "Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, no.59, pp.119-146. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo "Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 59 pp.119-146 (2008) : 119.

Park, Seonjoo. Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation. 2008; 59 : 119-146. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo. "Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.59(2008) : 119-146.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo. Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 59, 119-146. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo. Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2008; 59 119-146. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo. Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation. 2008; 59 : 119-146. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119

Park, Seonjoo. "Toward a Non-Eurocentric World Literature: Cross-theoretical encounter of world Literature and Translation" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University no.59(2008) : 119-146.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu..59.200806.119