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Re: Swedish Academy - The Peter Englund era
I would have liked to edited my previous message, but as it has been approved yet, I'll post this one as an addendum. The two can, hopefully, appear together. I should amend my previous definition of Engdahl's period as "witness & testimonial literature."
2001 - V. S. Naipaul - colonial and post-colonial India and Trinidad, digressions on belonging (what it means to be a citizen and if this arises from living in a place of genealogical history)
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek - oppression of women, how patterns of abuse are inherited and cyclical, deleterious effects of pop culture
2005 - Harold Pinter - his diatribe towards the U.S. are mainly reserved for comments outside of his literature. I should say his political theater is more "about" Turkey, totalitarian governments, and Thatcher
2006 - Orhan Pamuk - the topos of jealousy, its expression in East vs. West contentions, and the consequences
2007 - Doris Lessing - women as agents but also what it means to be a woman, particularly in her autobiographies (it should be noted Lessing herself despised the ghettoization of being termed a feminist author)
2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - his earlier literature centered around Big Companies, Big Technology, and Big Solipsism affecting humanitarian sentiments and culture, effectively dehumanizing us and leaving no room for humans as a species to be undeceived in our illusions of selfishness and ersatz connectedness, opening up paths of war, abuse, suicide, and totalitarian states.
Englund's tenure appears to have been the age of "authors who capture the history and space of the country they are from and celebrated in."
I would have liked to edited my previous message, but as it has been approved yet, I'll post this one as an addendum. The two can, hopefully, appear together. I should amend my previous definition of Engdahl's period as "witness & testimonial literature."
2001 - V. S. Naipaul - colonial and post-colonial India and Trinidad, digressions on belonging (what it means to be a citizen and if this arises from living in a place of genealogical history)
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek - oppression of women, how patterns of abuse are inherited and cyclical, deleterious effects of pop culture
2005 - Harold Pinter - his diatribe towards the U.S. are mainly reserved for comments outside of his literature. I should say his political theater is more "about" Turkey, totalitarian governments, and Thatcher
2006 - Orhan Pamuk - the topos of jealousy, its expression in East vs. West contentions, and the consequences
2007 - Doris Lessing - women as agents but also what it means to be a woman, particularly in her autobiographies (it should be noted Lessing herself despised the ghettoization of being termed a feminist author)
2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - his earlier literature centered around Big Companies, Big Technology, and Big Solipsism affecting humanitarian sentiments and culture, effectively dehumanizing us and leaving no room for humans as a species to be undeceived in our illusions of selfishness and ersatz connectedness, opening up paths of war, abuse, suicide, and totalitarian states.
Englund's tenure appears to have been the age of "authors who capture the history and space of the country they are from and celebrated in."