Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Special issue › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Special issue › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Four Paths Five Destinations
AU - Graebner, Cornelia
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - This article contests the popular assumption that literature is ever less politically relevant. Quite the contrary is the case: literature and literary language becomes increasingly important for the alter-globalization movement and for the notion that ‘another world is possible.’ The work of four authors - Manu Chao, Eduardo Galeano, Subcomandante Marcos, and José Saramago - are comparatively analysed in light of their contribution to an alternative globalism and to an alternative practice of politics. All four authors contribute from different perspectives to the literary articulation of a political project. Their work shares characteristics such as the permeability of genres, the emphasis on the poetical over the narrative, a meandering structure that expresses the search for and step-by-step construction of a cultural and political alternative, and an emphasis on translation and encounter as principles of interaction with difference.
AB - This article contests the popular assumption that literature is ever less politically relevant. Quite the contrary is the case: literature and literary language becomes increasingly important for the alter-globalization movement and for the notion that ‘another world is possible.’ The work of four authors - Manu Chao, Eduardo Galeano, Subcomandante Marcos, and José Saramago - are comparatively analysed in light of their contribution to an alternative globalism and to an alternative practice of politics. All four authors contribute from different perspectives to the literary articulation of a political project. Their work shares characteristics such as the permeability of genres, the emphasis on the poetical over the narrative, a meandering structure that expresses the search for and step-by-step construction of a cultural and political alternative, and an emphasis on translation and encounter as principles of interaction with difference.
KW - alter-globalization
KW - political literature
KW - Quixotic
KW - poetics
KW - literary genres
M3 - Special issue
VL - 6
SP - 1-19, 93-112
JO - Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
JF - Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
SN - 1832-9101
IS - 2
ER -