MODL3410
Module Reading List
Dr Sarah Hudspith
s.f.hudspith@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Primary Reading (in order of study)
Semester One:
Yakhina, Guzel, Zuleikha, trans. Lisa Hayden, London: Oneworld, 2019.
Cueto, Alonso, The Blue Hour, trans. Frank Wynne, London: Windmill, 2013.
Tawada, Yoko, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, trans. Susan Bernofsky, London: Portobello Books, 2017.
Semester Two:
Ferrante, Elena, The Story of the Lost Child ISBN: 9781609452865 (softcover); 1609452860 (softcover), trans. Ann Goldstein, London: Europa Editions, 2015.
Dib, Mohammed, 'The Savage Night', in The Savage Night, trans. C. Dickson, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, pp. 47-72. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva
Zeh, Juli, The Method ISBN: 9780099551768 (pbk.) : 9; 0099551764 (pbk.) : 9, trans. Sally-Ann Spencer, London: Vintage, 2012.
Required secondary reading
Week 1
Parks, Tim. ‘The Dull New Global Novel’, The New York Review of Books, 9 February 2010, https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2010/02/09/the-dull-new-global-novel/
Yakhina
Week 2
Roy, Nilanjana, ‘Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina – freedom in exile’, The Financial Times, 31 May 2019 https://www.ft.com/content/4e8eac74-7d4e-11e9-8b5c-33d0560f039c
Week 3
Prose, Francine, ‘Exiled to Siberia: A first novel revisits Stalin’s Great Purge’, The New York Times, 1 March 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/books/review/guzel-yakhina-zuleikha.html
Galaydov, Daniil, ‘Zuleikha opens her eyes to dark spots of Russian history’, The Moscow Times, 22 May 2020 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/22/zuleikha-opens-her-eyes-to-dark-spots-of-russian-history-a70351
Amos, Howard, ‘ “Learn to live with it, even forgive”: Russia’s best-sellling author Guzel Yakhina on the traumas of Soviet history’, The Calvert Journal, 4 March 2019 https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11030/learn-to-live-with-it-even-forgive-russias-literary-sensation-guzel-yakhina-stalinism-soviet-history
Week 4
Costa-Kostritsky, Valeria and Shcherbina, Vera, ‘There’s a Problem with Zuleikha’, Tribune, 6 June 2020 https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/06/theres-a-problem-with-zuleikha
Maguire, Muireann, ‘Climbing the mountain and crossing the wall: politically sensitive post-Soviet women’s literature in translation’, Translating Women – Activism in Action, ed. by Olga Castro and Helen Vassallo, Institute of Translation and Interpreting, 2020 https://www.iti.org.uk/resource/translating-women-iti-research-e-book-published.html (Click 'login' to create a FREE account and download the e-book).
Cueto
Week 5
Chauca, Edward, 'Mental illness in Peruvian narratives of violence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission', Latin American Research Review Vol. 51, No. 2 (2016), pp. 67-85. (Read pp. 67-70 for contextual background, and pp. 76-80 re: The Blue Hour).
Week 6
Lambright, Anne, 'Chapter 1: Sustaining Dominant Narratives', in Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity and Cultural Production in Post-Shining-Path Peru, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Week 8
Dickson, Kent 'Trauma and trauma discourse: Peruvian fiction after the CVR', Chasqui, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mayo 2013), pp. 64-76.
Tawada
Week 9
Kafka, Franz, ‘A Report to an Academy’, in Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories (any edition)
Week 10
Sturm-Trigonakis, Elke ‘Contemporary German-Based Hybrid Texts as New World Literature’ in German Literature as World Literature, ed. Thomas Beebee, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 177-195
Sobelle, Stefanie, ‘Susan Bernofsky Walks the Tightrope: An Interview About Translating Yoko Tawada’s “Memoirs of a Polar Bear”, Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 November 2016
Week 11
Herrmann, Elisabeth, ‘How Does Transnationalism Redefine Contemporary Literature?’, in Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature, eds. Elisabeth Hermann, Carrie Smith-Prei and Stuart Taberner, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015, pp. 19-42
Galchen, Rivka, ‘Imagine That: The Profound Empathy of Yoko Tawada’, The New York Times Magazine, 27 October 2016
Ferrante
Week 15
Fischer, Molly, 'Elena Ferrante and the force of female friendship', The New Yorker. ISSN: 0028-792X, 4 September 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/elena-ferrante-liking-like
Wood, James, 'Women on the Verge. The fiction of Elena Ferrante', The New Yorker, 21 January 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/21/women-on-the-verge
'Women Who Write', in Ferrante, Elena, Frantumaglia : a writer's journey , translated by Ann Goldstein, New York: Europa Editions, 2016, pp. 258-290. OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (IK 09/10/2019)
Week 16
Mah, Ann, 'Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Then and Now', The New York Times, 14 January 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/travel/elena-ferrante-naples.html?_r=0
Ferrante, Elena, 'Our Fetid City', The New York Times, 15 January 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/opinion/15ferrante.html?_r=1
Cavanaugh, Jillian R. 'Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference', in The works of Elena Ferrante : reconfiguring the margins , ed by Grace Russo Bullaro e Stephanie Love (New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2016)
'Language versus dialect, or why we're obsessed with Elena Ferrante', The World in Words, Public Radio International (PRI), Boston USA, 7 April 2017: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-04-07/elena-ferrante-language-versus-dialect.
Week 17
'Ties that bind. A four-volume feminist novel from Naples has become an unlikely global hit', The economist. , 27 August 2015, http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21662488-four-volume-feminist-novel-naples-has-become-unlikely-global-hit-ties-bind
Simpson, Mona, 'Elena Ferrante Writes Fiction That Feels Autobiographical. But Who Is She?', New republic. 10 October 2014, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119727/elena-ferrantes-those-who-leave-and-those-who-stay-reviewed
Wehling-Giorgi, Katrin, 'Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Writing Liminality', Allegoria. , 73 (2016), pp.204-210. OCR REQUESTED BY LIBRARY (afp 28/10/2020)
Lowry, Elizabeth, 'Friends and Other Enemies', Wall Street Journal, 21 November 2015 https://www.wsj.com/articles/friends-and-other-enemies-1448054911
Dib
Week 18
Maerhofer, John W. ‘Algeria “Revisited”: Imperialism, Resistance, and the Dialectic of Violence in Mohammed Dib's “The Savage Night”, College Literature 37(1) (December 2010): 204-221
Week 19
Enyida, David, ‘Rhythm of Violence in Mohammed Dib's Short Stories’, scribd.com 2019, https://www.scribd.com/document/414069636/Rhythm-of-Violence-in-Mohammed-Dib-s-Short-Stories
Week 20
Fanon, Frantz, ‘Concerning Violence’, in The Wretched of The Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, New York: Grove Press, 2004: 27-47.
Zeh
Week 21
Smith-Prei, Carrie, ‘Relevant Utopian Realism: The Critical Corporeality of Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti’, Seminar : a journal of Germanic studies. ISSN: 0037-1939; 1911-026X 48.1 (February 2012), pp.107-123
Week 22
Koellner, Sarah, Data, Love, and Bodies: The Value of Privacy in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti, Seminar : a journal of Germanic studies, 52.4 (November 2016), pp. 407-425
Week 23
McCalmont, Virginia and Maierhofer, Waltraud, 'Juli Zeh's "Corpus Delicti" (2009): Health Care, Terrorists, and the Return of the Political Message', Monatshefte. ISSN: 0026-9271, 104.3 (Fall 2012), pp. 375-392
Further recommended reading
General scholarship on world/global/comparative literature
Beecroft, Alexander, An Ecology of World Literature, London: Verso, 2015.
Hutchinson, Ben, Comparative Literature: a Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Walkowitz, Rebecca, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
Warwick Research Collective (WReC), Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
‘World Lite: What is Global Literature?’, n+1, Issue 17, 2013: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-17/the-intellectual-situation/world-lite/
Yakhina
Conquest, Robert, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, London: Pimlico, 2008. (For historical background)
Dobrenko, Evgeny and Lipovetsky, Mark, eds, Russian literature since 1991 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (For general background on contemporary Russian literature)
Kaznelson, Michael, 'Remembering the Soviet State: Kulak children and dekulakisation', Europe-Asia Studies vol. 59, no. 7 (Nov 2007), pp. 1163-1177. (Focuses on the experience of children, but is useful in giving context about dekulakisation and about the process of remembering and relating the experience).
Cueto
Espinosa, Agustin; Paez, Dario; Velazquez, Tesania; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Seminario, Evelyn; Sandoval, Salvador; Reategui, Felix; Jave, Iris, 'Between remembering and forgetting the years of political violence: psychosocial impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru, Political Psychology vol. 38 no. 5 (2017), pp. 849-866
Shang Ndi, Gilbert, 'Righting the aftermath: on the ethics of recognition in the postwar novels of Alonso Cueto and Julien Kilanga Musinde', Comparative Literature Studies vol. 57, no. 1 (2020), pp. 95-125
'Mario Vargas Llosa in conversation with Alonso Cueto: Celebrating Don Quixote', Review (Americas Society) vol. 50, no. 1 (2017), pp. 42-48
Rivera, Fernando, 'Writing the sexual-cultural encounter in the Andes: La hora azul by Alonso Cueto', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies vol. 90, no. 7 (2013), pp. 853-866.
Tawada
Books
Beebee, Thomas ed. German Literature as World Literature, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014
Herrmann, Elisabeth, Carrie-Smith Prei, and Stuart Taberner, eds. Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature, Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015
Taberner, Stuart, Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Slaymaker, Doug, ed. Yoko Tawada: Voices From Everywhere, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007 (provides useful biographical information on Tawada, as well as an introduction to her other work)
Book chapters/articles
De Donno, ‘Translingual Affairs of World Literature: Rootlessness and Romance in Jhumpa Lahiri and Yoko Tawada’, Journal of World Literature, 6.1 (2021), pp. 103-122
Derrida, Jacques, 'The Animal That I Therefore Am (More to Follow)', trans by David Wills, Critical Enquiry, 28.2 (2002) pp. 369-418
McNeill, Elizabeth, ‘Writing and Reading (with) Polar Bears in Yoko Tawada’s Etüden im Schnee', The German Quarterly, 92.1 (2019), pp. 51-67
Walkowitz, Rebecca L., ‘On Not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro', New Literary History, 51.2 (2020), pp. 323-46
Interviews, Reviews and Newspaper Articles
Brandt, Bettina, ‘The Postcommunist Eye: An Interview with Yoko Tawada' World Literature Today, Jan-Feb 2006.
Goldman, Nathan, ‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear: Yoko Tawada’, Full Stop: Reviews, Interviews, Marginalia, February 9 2017
O’Key, Dominic, ‘Writing between species: Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear’, 3am Magazine, 16 May 2017
Ferrante
Ferrante, Elena, Frantumaglia : a writer's journey ISBN: 9781609454326 (pbk.) : £11.99, translated by Ann Goldstein, New York: Europa Editions, 2016
Chihaya, Sarah; Emre, Merve; Hill, Katherine; Richards, Jill, The Ferrante Letters: an Experiment in Collective Criticism New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
Tortorici, Diana, 'Those Like Us: On Elena Ferrante', n + 1, Issue 22, https://nplusonemag.com/issue-22/reviews/those-like-us/
Dib
Coly, Ayo A. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (Lexington 2010)
Zeh
de Berg, Henk, 'Mia gegen den Rest der Welt. Zu Juli Zehs Corpus Delicti,' in: Kalina Kupczynska and Artur Pelka (eds.), Repräsentationen des ethischen : festschrift für Joanna Jablkowska ISBN: 9783631627136, Wuerzburg: K&N 2013 - IN GERMAN!
Marcuse, Herbert One-Dimensional Man, London: Routledge 2012
This list was last updated on 12/01/2022