Előadás | Jessie Labov The World Novel in Pieces: Nagyvilág, Competing Internationalisms, and the View from the Semiperiphery

Jessie Labov előadása a magyar folyóiratok difitális bölcsészeti eszközökkel történő vizsgálatáról.

Theories of the world literary system usually follow the novel from core to periphery: how forms travel outward, compromise with local materials, and return consecrated. This lecture asks a different question: how did a semiperipheral culture read the world novel, and through what infrastructure? Its case is Nagyvilág (1957–2016), the Hungarian Writers' Association's journal of world literature, founded after 1956 with the mission of placing Hungarian readers in "the homeland of nations, the wider world." Drawing on a bibliometric study of foreign authors in Hungarian periodicals, I argue that the journal was the place where foreign novels first arrived, in excerpts, reviews, interviews and portraits, usually before the book did, and sometimes instead of it. In the Cold War decades, this infrastructure did not answer to a single world system. Socialist internationalism, Western literary prestige, and decolonial and Third-Worldist projects competed to define the literary world, and Nagyvilág negotiated among them. I suggest that "one and unequal" may need a plural for the socialist period. Seen from Budapest, core and periphery were not fixed positions but questions that each table of contents answered differently.

Időpont: 2026. október 8. 14:00

Helyszín: PTE BTK E épület 542-es terem

További részletek Jessie Labov munkásságáról: ITT.