Alice Duhan, Romklass, awarded Swedish Research Council grant
Alice Duhan, currently postdoctoral research fellow at Romklass, has been awarded research funding from the Swedish Research Council in the annual call for humanities and social sciences. Her three-year project, "Translingual Writing post-1945 and the Multilingual Spaces of French Fiction", examines literary texts written by second language authors in French and asks how this literature can contribute to a re-reading of recent French literary history from the vantage point of multilingualism.
Authors who write and publish literary texts in their second, third or fourth chronologically acquired language have always existed. It is indeed perhaps surprising that it is only in the last twenty years that a specialized research field has emerged that studies this “translingual” literature as a specific sub-category within literary studies.
This project focuses on translingual fiction in French from 1945 onwards, a period when translingual writers not only came to play a particularly prominent role within French-language literature, but also increasingly came to be viewed – and often to perceive themselves – as belonging to a specific “translingual” literary tradition. The study aims to establish for the first time an overview and periodization of translingual writing in French from the mid-twentieth century to today, and will also contribute to our understanding of how translingual writing has been theorised and received in a specifically French-language context.
Alice Pick Duhan. Foto: Privat
Alice Duhan is a postdoctoral research fellow in French and Comparative Literature in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University. Her research interests include literary multilingualism, self-translation, world literature theory, and contemporary French and Francophone fiction.
Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.
Transcultural Literary Studies is a vibrant field that brings together several researchers in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics. Our research group focuses on a broad range of issues related to the translation, circulation and reception of literature, and also examines literary multilingualism in all its forms.
More than one billion people around the world speak a Romance language as their first or shared first language. The most wide-spread Romance languages are Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian – i.e. the same four languages that can be studied at Stockholm University.
