[KS] The Global Circulation Project: Intertextuality, reception, and cultural contact

[Afostercarter at aol.com]

Dear friends and colleagues,
 
I post the below on behalf of Professor Regenia  Gagnier,
Director of the Exeter Interdisciplinary  Institute.
 
She also directs the Global Circulation  Project, sponsored by
Literature Compass and supported by the British  Academy.
 
This is an exciting and ambitious initiative. It  already
includes a research fellow from China (see below),  and
Korea is very much on the agenda too.  Professor Gagnier writes:
 
By all means do post the GCP link on the  Korean boards. We are interested 
in submissions to the journal or responses to  its publications, in the 
genuine spirit of dialogue, though everything is  rigorously peer-reviewed. 
Anyone who would like to submit or write responses  should get in touch with the 
Managing Editor Phil Smith (on the site). We also  actively invite both 
submissions and responses, so when I am more familiar with  Korean scholarship, 
we will begin to make contacts ourselves. 
 
 
These are fascinating issues, so I trust Koreanists will  ensure that
Korea is fully represented in this "global map and  dialogue."
 
Best wishes
Aidan FC
 
 
Aidan  Foster-Carter 
Honorary Senior Research  Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds 
University, UK 
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_http://www.blackwell-compass.com/globalcirculationproject_ 
(http://www.blackwell-compass.com/globalcirculationproject) 
 
 
The Global  Circulation Project is a  global map and dialogue on how key 
Anglophone works, authors, genres, and  literary movements have been received, 
imitated/mimicked, adapted, or  syncretised outside Britain, Europe, and 
North America, or, conversely, how key  works from outside these areas have 
been received, imitated/mimicked, adapted,  or syncretised within Anglophone 
literary traditions. It asks, what forms of  intertextuality, reception, etc. 
are generated through cultural contact? 

For example, in a pilot project  supported by the British Academy on the 
global circulation of Charles Dickens,  we are asking: 
    *   
How has Dickens been received, imitated/mimicked, adapted, or  syncretised 
outside Britain, Europe and North America?
    *   
What forms of intertextuality have been generated with indigenous  cultural 
forms?
    *   
What is the role of Dickens’s Britain in the imaginary of other  cultures?

Conversely, we study the role of the 1001 Nights in Anglophone culture. 
Thus: How have  the Nights been received, imitated/ mimicked,  etc.? What forms 
of intertextuality have been generated with Anglophone forms?  What is the 
role of the Nights in the imaginary of British  Literature? 

Any authors,  works, or genres with evidence of significant 
global/international circulation  and impact from any time period may be the subject of an 
article. 

For the launch of the GCP in early  2010, we have published articles on 
_Global  Dickens_ 
(http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/article_view?article_id=lico_articles_bpl664)  by John Jordan  (University of 
California, Santa Cruz),  _Global_ 
(http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section=lico-renaissance&sortb
y=date&section=lico-renaissance&browse_id=lico_articles_bpl688&article_id=li
co_articles_bpl688) Modernisms/  Modernities by Laura  Doyle (U 
Massachusetts, Amherst), _The  Distant Future? Reading Franco Morett_ 
(http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/article_view?article_id=lico_articles_bpl
669) i by Rachel Serlen (Columbia University)  and the _Naturalist  Novel 
in Asia_ 
(http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/article_view?article_id=lico_articles_bpl662)  by  Christopher Hill (Yale). In the next few 
months we will also feature a paper on  the Anglo-Indian  Canon by Norbert 
Schurer  (California State  University, Long Beach).

In the future, we expect articles on  the Global Circulation of the  New 
Woman by Ann Heilmann  (Hull), the Global Circulation  of key texts of 
Liberalism by  Regenia Gagnier (Exeter), Global Joyce by Ariela Freedman 
(Concordia), Darwin in China by Haiyan Yang (Peking), Byron in China by Ting Guo 
(Exeter), Romanticism and Latin  America by Joselyn  Almeida-Beveridge (U Mass 
Amherst), Global Medievalisms (Geraldine Heng, U Texas), and  more.

We welcome proposals and submissions to the Global  Circulation Project.  
Essential  to the dialogic nature of the GCP is the participation of 
scholars outside  Britain, Europe, and North America, and we especially encourage 
submissions of  paired articles and responses across international 
boundaries. 

All submissions must include  full scholarly apparatus and will be 
peer-reviewed according to Literature Compass’ normal  procedures. Articles 
published through the GCP will invite online scholarly  responses from experts with 
the goal of global dialogue on literature. We  apologize in advance to the 
scholarly community that at this time we are only  able to consider 
submissions and responses in English; this may change as the  dialogue and network 
grow. 

For more information or to  submit a proposal email Kivmars Bowling at 
_LICOEditorial at wiley.com_ (mailto:LICOEditorial at wiley.com) .
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