Ultraminor World Literatures

Bergur Rønne Moberg (PhD University of Copenhagen, 2004) is an Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Scandinavian, Faroese and Icelandic literature and culture, including the book Resten i Vesten. Verdenslitteratur i modernismens margin (2014, The Rest in the West. World Literature in the Margin of Literature), forthcoming in German in 2023.David Damrosch (PhD Yale, 1980) is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. He is author or editor of two dozen books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (2021).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Defining the UltraminorBergur Rønne Moberg and David DamroschAt the Margins of the Minor: Rethinking Scalarity, Relationality, and TranslationAndrea BachnerFrancophone Acadian Literature as an Ultraminor Literature: The Case of Novelist France DaigleAndrea CabajskyThird-Wheel Literatures: A Multilingual World Seen through Contemporary Nahua LiteratureMatylda FiglerowiczSemitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of MaltaOliver FriggieriThe Ultraminor to Be or Not to Be: Deprivation and Compensation Strategies in Faroese LiteratureBergur Rønne MobergLife in a Dead Language: Modern Sanskrit as an Ultraminor LiteratureMatthew NelsonThe Rainbow Isle and the City of Rain: Foreigners in Mauritian and Norwegian Ultraminor Genre FictionRashi RohatgiGlobal Masterpieces and Italian Dialects: Shakespeare in Neapolitan and vicentinoElisa SegniniUltraminor Literature in a Major Language: An Indian Way of Thinking the Case of Chemmeen in MalayalamBhavya TiwariThe Archeology of Minor Literature: Towards the Concept of the UltraminorVeronika Tuckerová