Transnational and Translingual Poetics

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Recent studies of transnational poetics highlight the importance of cross-cultural exchange and influence for the development of poetry in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. This panel considers the specific dynamics of these processes in contemporary poetry and poetics, asking both how transnational approaches help to illuminate the work of particular Russophone poets, and what examples from this context can contribute to theorising transnational poetics more broadly. Papers address the theoretical underpinnings of Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s transnational poetics and the place of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language in his work; multilingualism and memory in the work of Russophone Uyghur poet Ramil Niyazov-Adyldzhyan; code-switching in the work of Tatar poet Dinara Rasuleva as a decolonial feminist practice; and the special formal and semantic characteristics of translingual writing.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 21st Century

Chair

• Luc Jean Beaudoin, U of Denver

Papers

• 'To Live and to Die a Stranger in a Foreign Land': Arkady Dragomoshchenko’s Poetics of Non-Identity - Eric Patton

• 'No Replacements Found': Multilingual Memory in the Work of Ramil Niyazov-Adyldzhyan - Isobel Palmer, U of Birmingham (UK)

• 'Тел Me in Your Motherтел': Dinara Rasuleva’s Translingual Poetics - Alexandra Tkacheva, U of Michigan

• What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Translingualism in Poetry? - Eugene Ostashevsky, New York U

Discussant

• Luc Jean Beaudoin, U of Denver