Fredric Jameson_Whether World Literature has a Foreign Policy.pdf

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1、Appendix1BelowisthetranscriptionofalecturegivenbyFredricJamesonupontheoccasionofthreceivingtheHolbergInternationalMemorialPrizedatedonthe10November,2008attheFranklinHumanitiesInstituteofDukeUniversity.Therecordingofthespeechcanbefreelyreviewedathttp://

2、www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtV4kCzvnU.Iapologizethatthistranscriptionisnotatallperfect.Thoseconfusingaspectsareindicatedbythesign‘…’,ofwhichacheckorverificationwiththeoriginalsourceisstronglysuggested.WhetherWorldLiteraturehasaForeignPolicy?Thisbriefinte

3、rventionwassuggestedbymyperplexityinthefaceofaninterviewquestionwhichaskedmeaboutthesignificanceofinternationalprizessuchasthisoneoftheHolbergInternationalMemorialPrize.Iwant,andIdon’tthinkIansweredthatverywell.ButIwantnowtosaywhatIthinkthatsignificanc

4、eisthatisnowIwillanswer.ButIwilldividemyanswerintotwoparts:Iwillanswerthegeneralquestionnow,andreservearemarkabouttheHolbergPrizeinparticularfortomorrow(andthat’swhatyouwon’thearalthough…).Inthegeneralwaytoday,theinternationalprizeforcesustoraiseagaint

5、hequestionofAppendix2nations,andtherelationshipofnationalliteraturestoeachother.IwillincludetherecipientsoftheHolbergunderliteraturefollowingGoethe’sideathatwhathecalledWeltliteratur(andIsortofsupposedeveryonehasheardofhisinventionofthisterm)wasessenti

6、allyanetworkorrelationshipofdifferentnationalcriticsandthinkersamongeachother,aboveandbeyondthetranslationofpurelyliterarytexts.(AndIthinkIwillcomebacktothatlateron.)Butdoesthenation-statestillexistunderglobalization?Andwhatcanbethestatusofso-calledwor

7、ldliteratureinthatnewglobalsystem?WoulditbegovernedbysomethinglikeaLiteraryUnitedNations?SoIwanttosaysomethingaboutthenationtoday,andthenaboutliteraryvalue,andfinally,aboutrelationshipsassuchwhichaccordingtomehastobegraspedintermsofothernessandnegativi

8、ty.Thenationalispreeminentlytheplaceofthedialecticalunionofopposites,thespacewheretheoppositescoincide.Thenationalis,thus,ontheonehand,thespaceofthemostabominableethniccleansing,ofbigotryandxenophobiainthenarrowestandmostprovincialforms