Afterword. The Location of Translation: The Atlantic and the (Relational) Literary History of Modern Transnational Poetics
Afterword. The Location of Translation: The Atlantic and the (Relational) Literary History of Modern Transnational Poetics
This afterword stresses the importance of the concept of translation within the field of contemporary transatlantic literary and cultural studies. It also offers an alternative to the theoretical framework offered by traditional national literary history and literary historiography as the main paradigm for the study of literature. Finally, based on the work of Erich Auerbach and Brent Hayes Edwards, it suggests the articulation of a model of transcultural literary history based on the notion of relationally at the core of édouard Glissant’s notion of a “poetics of relation.”
Keywords: Black Atlantic, studies, Literary History, Erich, Brent Hayes, poetics, Paul
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