Mapping 'The International Literature': The Journal Behind the Scenes and on the Cover

• In Event: Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices IV: Mapping

Abstract

The paper discusses the journal’s internationalism in terms of geography, which is partly a follow-up to the study of geography proposed in the collective article [Ostrovskaya, Zemskova et al.]. Its focus, however, is the juxtaposition of the journal’s contents (source languages of the works published, the authors’ nationality, etc.) and the archival documents, primarily, the records of the editors’ correspondence with foreign authors. It uses digital analysis** to further explore its perspectives for the discussion of world literature as a network. The ways of addressing the dataset inconsistencies become another important problem discussed in the paper.* Ostrovskaya, Elena, Elena Zemskova, Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov. “International literature: A Multi-language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR”. 2023. World Literature in the Soviet Union, ed. by Galin Tikhanov, Rossen Djagalov, and Anne Lounsbury. Academic Studies Press. 137-163. **The digital part of the research is based on the dataset produced by the Interlit digital project co-headed by Elena Ostrovskaia and Elena Zemskova and a dataset based on the journal’s archive.

Author

• Elena Ostrovskaya