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Lecture by Soren Frank: 'Four Steps Toward a Literature of Migration'
Date
Wed October 15th 2008, 1:00pm
We live in an age of migration and during the 20th century literary history saw an increase in the number of authors having migrant backgrounds. In this lecture we will discuss the distinctiveness of literature written by migrants proposing, however, that we should pay more concern to the works’ thematic and formal design than to authorial background. This entails a conceptual shift from migrant literature to migration literature, and it ultimately opens up the possibility that non-migrants living in an age of migration can produce migration literature.
Søren Frank is Assistant Professor, University of
Southern Denmark.
He is the author of Salman Rushdies
kartografi, and the
forthcoming Giganternes
skuldre: En fortælling om Manchester United.
In
addition, he has published a number of articles on Rushdie and
Grass
and translated Gilles Deleuze’s book on Proust into
Danish.