Khal Torabully
- Khal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at our disposal in the present surge of globalization. In his poetic and theoretical texts, he has paid a literary tribute to the Coolies, usually from India, but also China and many other countries. Given Torabully’s Mauritian roots, but also the worldwide migration of the Coolies themselves, the world of Coolitude is culturally and linguistically extremely diverse, making the act of translation very relevant and giving it multiple meanings. Literature brings these forgotten lives back to life and allows us to share this experience thanks to its aesthetic force. It traces the movements, which sketch trajectories functioning to this day as palimpsest-like vectors of our own paths andKhal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at our disposal in the present surge of globalization. In his poetic and theoretical texts, he has paid a literary tribute to the Coolies, usually from India, but also China and many other countries. Given Torabully’s Mauritian roots, but also the worldwide migration of the Coolies themselves, the world of Coolitude is culturally and linguistically extremely diverse, making the act of translation very relevant and giving it multiple meanings. Literature brings these forgotten lives back to life and allows us to share this experience thanks to its aesthetic force. It traces the movements, which sketch trajectories functioning to this day as palimpsest-like vectors of our own paths and trajectories. The author of Chair Corail, Fragments Coolies breaks the chain of mutual exclusions, replacing it with a type of writing belonging to a wider array of expressive modes which in diasporic situations unleash polylogical and archipelagic imaginaries.…
Author details: | Ottmar EtteORCiDGND |
---|---|
URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412609 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of the African Literature Association |
Subtitle (English): | “Coolies” and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (149) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/08/01 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2018/08/01 |
Number of pages: | 9 |
Source: | Journal of the African Literature Association 11 (2017) Nr. 1, S. 112–119 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2017.1335948 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 39 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore / 390 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen | |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 940 Geschichte Europas | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |