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.…
Verfasserangaben: | Ottmar EtteORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412609 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Journal of the African Literature Association |
Untertitel (Englisch): | “Coolies” and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (149) |
Publikationstyp: | Postprint |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 01.08.2018 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 01.08.2018 |
Seitenanzahl: | 9 |
Quelle: | Journal of the African Literature Association 11 (2017) Nr. 1, S. 112–119 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2017.1335948 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Philosophische Fakultät |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 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 |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access |
Fördermittelquelle: | Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |