Transnational Aesthetics
Main content
This project aims to bring together the concepts of transnationality and aesthetics based on literary depictions of individual, ordinary transnational lives and interpersonal connections. The notions that have the potential to unify the various aspects of this project are liminality, home and (diasporic) intimacy. The current and future insights from this project hold promise of valuable contributions not only to the studies of transnational literature in its own right, but also to the studies of the transnational in American literature.
Ongoing research
"Contemporary Literary Negotiations: The Aesthetic Spaces of the Transnational" - PhD dissertation project by Tijana Przulj
The dissertation seeks to identify what can be termed a transnational aesthetic, and explore how this aesthetic manifests itself across varied works of transnational literature - two novels, a film, and a few poems. These texts also encompass varied transnational spaces as their protagonists navigate Nigerian American, Polish British, Polish American and Jamaican British experiences. The theoretical framework is based on the notions of memory, need and community-making agency, while also addressing aesthetic ties between literary works and the world outside of them.
Publication
"Transnational Literature in America: Where Do We Stand Twenty Years After Fishkin’s Transnational Turn?"
Special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia
Editor: Tijana Przulj
Call for papers: https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/assc/article/view/7181/7471 (pp. 84-85)
Collaborations
IMER (International Migration and Ethnic Relations) is an interdisciplinary research network associated with the University of Bergen, Chr Michelsen Institute and NORCE Research AS. Tijana Przulj is the coordinator for the IMER junior scholar network.