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Comparative Cultural Studies 1
Culture, Cultural Policy, and the MediaChair: Steven Totosy (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Boston, USA)
Minor Cultures, National Culture, and the Administration of Culture
Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and Boston, USA)
In his paper, "Minor Cultures, National Culture, and the Administration of Culture," Steven Totosy discusses contemporary Western culture in the context of the mass (im)migration of populations in North America and Europe. In the paper, Totosy focuses on the politics of national (perceived homogenous) versus the actual multi- and inter-cultural landscapes of culture. The discussion includes the question of canonical literature and diasporic and ethnic literature and the literatures of (im)migrants: of importance for scholars of culture is that these types of writing are by no means small and depending on the point of the location of the observer, they show a complicated and shifting typology; for example, Chinese, German, or Hungarian literature written in Canada can be designated as diasporic writing in Chinese or German or Hungarian literary scholarship while alternatively and/or parallel they can be understood and classified as ethnic writing in Canadian culture and literary scholarship, etc. In the second part of the presentation, Totosy discusses selected aspects of the politics of cultural administration (e.g., funding) of minor cultures in a number of countries.
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