How is original American literature translated, re-published, marketed and interpreted across the world? What do these processes reveal about America's image abroad? Harris will use literature - fiction, poetry, and nonfiction - as a way to understand America's place in the world.
Given current tensions surrounding America's place in an increasingly globalized world, a study of American literature's international circulation is necessary to accurately understand the dynamic relationship between America and the rest of the world.
Which works of American literature are chosen to be translated and admitted into various cultures and how are they consequently interpreted by readers abroad? Harris will speak with publishers, booksellers and ordinary readers about the ways in which their conceptions of America are formed by the American literature available to them. Finally, this study underlines the importance of the written word as a means of relating to one another - through an investigation of the various ways in which different groups of people interpret the same texts. |
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