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  • 1.
    Fjellestad, Danuta
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Futures of American Literature2015In: Studia Neophilologica, ISSN 0039-3274, E-ISSN 1651-2308, Vol. 87, no SI, p. 1-7Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 2.
    Kullberg, Christina
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Modern Languages, Romance Languages.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Introduction: Theorizing the vernacular2022In: Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures 2022, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, p. 1-24Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Our argument here is that it is not too late for the vernacular, which is to say we should neither view it solely as a residual formation that is fading away quickly, nor solely associate it with often-reactionary, populist political cultures. On the contrary, given the precarious historical moment that we now experience to various degrees of acuteness, critical engagements with literature in the world—what is generally referred to as world literature—prompts a theorization of the vernacular. Our time, shaped by a long century of decolonization, new imperial formations, and emergent new technologies, is indeed an age that requires a different take on the vernacular. We cannot, as was arguably the case when Goethe famously coined the notion of world literature, take the West, or the “canon” or even print culture and the world market as points of departure for thinking literature in the world. Climate crises, rising economic inequalities, platform capitalism, growing populisms and activisms spur new attention to the active role of the local, the indigenous, the minor, and the peripheral in international literary flows and exchanges. This is where our volume wants to make a contribution by rethinking the vernacular through its various practices, functions, and meanings. The case studies brought together here explore the vernacular in different places, cultures, and historical moments. By means of different methodologies from literary studies, anthropology, linguistics, and history of ideas, they testify that the vernacular is not just one thing. It is always plural and shifting. And as a protean category, the vernacular should not be dismissed too quickly as if we always already know what it signifies, but should instead be rethought and explored time and time again for what it tells us about the variegated, uneven globe we inhabit and its cultures.

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  • 3.
    Kullberg, Christina
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Modern Languages.
    Watson, DavidUppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures2022Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This open access book complicates and develops the notion of the vernacular. Understood in the linguistic sense as well as an element of the local, the vernacular facilitates the exploration of local and global dynamics. Through exploring the unexamined active role of the local, the indigenous, and the periphery in international literary exchanges, this volume argues that a coherent theorization of the vernacular will enable us to do so.

    The essays in Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures present new critical approaches in the debate on world literature, which has given priority to cosmopolitan movements, global circulation of literatures, and metropolitan centers. In nine case studies, approaching narratives from the long 20th century from more or less marginal contexts-such as the Francophone Chinese diaspora, multilingual regions in Spain, West Africa, and the Caribbean-the volume offers theoretical and methodological ways of putting the concept of the vernacular in practice and demonstrates how vernaculars operate within different literary, critical, cultural, and political circumstances.

  • 4.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    A Death that is of no Consequence: The Example of Emerson's Son2009In: English Studies in Africa, ISSN 0013-8398, E-ISSN 1943-8117, Vol. 52, no 1, p. 28-37Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 5.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    A Mind Poised Between Desires: The Ethos of T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Criticism2006In: Textual Ethos Studies or locating ethics / [ed] Anna Fåhraeus & AnnKatrin Jonsson, New York: Rodopi , 2006, p. 333-348Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 6.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    A Patient Etherised’: Modernism and the Legitimation of Poetry2004In: JLS, ISSN 0256-4718, Vol. 20, no 3, p. 196-217Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 7.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    At the Mercy of Hawthorne’s Letter2011Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Beautiful Walls: A Response to Johannes Voelz2017In: American Literary History, ISSN 0896-7148, E-ISSN 1468-4365, Vol. 29, no 3, p. 625-628Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This essay offers a brief response to Johannes Voelz’s call for an engagement with the aesthetics of security and, in particular, insecurity. It raises the question of whether there exists a co-constitutive relationship between the politics and practices of security and its aesthetics, and, more broadly, seeks to identify some of the questions and areas of investigation that might result from a literary study of security and securitization.

  • 9.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Borderline Fiction: Writing the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children1998In: JLS, ISSN 0256-4718, Vol. 14, no 1/2, p. 213-227Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 10.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Derivative Creativity and the Financialization of the Contemporary American Novel2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 11.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Derivative Creativity: The Financialization of the Contemporary American Novel2017In: European Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1382-5577, E-ISSN 1744-4233, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 93-105Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article offers a critical analysis of financialisation as a conceptual category for making sense of contemporary American fiction. Examining the rise of the figure of the creative entrepreneur as well as a range of contemporary fiction, the author argues that, to make sense of these developments and texts, we need to attend to how they reproduce the logic of finance, and in particular that of the financial instrument of the derivative. Like the financial derivative, the novels the author examines are future-oriented: they calculate and speculate on the ways they feed forward into new iterations and media. In addition, the texts and their authors are embedded within entrepreneurial networks within which different fields and competencies are brought into relation with one another. Through these conjunctures, the logic of finance becomes that of the contemporary novel.

  • 12.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Europe2018In: Herman Melville in Context / [ed] Kevin J. Hayes, Cambridge University Press, 2018, p. 55-63Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 13.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Failing States, Human (In)Security, and the American World Novel2019In: New Global Studies, E-ISSN 1940-0004, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 80-101Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    As a growing number of contemporary American novelists take the world and its socio-cultural and geopolitical complexity as their subject matter, the contemporary novel's form and sense of worldliness are shifting. Twenty-first century US fiction challenges normative models of the world proposed by theories of cosmopolitan relationality by projecting fragile worlds of strife and trauma, in which violence accompanies geopolitical turbulence. In these novels, discourses around human security-the everyday security needs of vulnerable populations-are increasingly prominent. Accordingly, contemporary US fiction often incorporates within its geopolitical imaginary such issues as human rights, humanitarian interventions, development, and how life is disabled by prejudice, civil war, scarcity, and health or other crises. In this essay, I range across a number of works by contemporary American novelists such as Dave Eggers, Jennifer Egan, Denis Johnson, Dana Spiotta, and Bob Shacochis in which state failures as well as human and geopolitical security concerns impact on the form given to the world by these novelists. In their novels, narratives concerning human security as well as threats to geopolitical stability produce transnational geographies in which global interconnections and circulation intensify feelings of insecurity.

  • 14.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Falling Forward: Speculation and Risk in the Contemporary American Novel2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 15.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Faulkner Beyond Yoknapatawpha and the Globe”.2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 16.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Ha Jin and the Many Languages of War2015Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 17.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Hart Crane's Disappointment2007Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 18.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Human Security and the Worlding of the American Novel.2015Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 19.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    In a Melodramatic Mood: Security and Threat Narratives in Charlie Huston’s Skinner and Jess Walter’s The Zero.2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 20.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    In Ghostlier Demarcations: Transnationalism and the Aesthetic2009Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 21.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    In Ghostlier Demarcations: Transnationalism and the Aesthetic2010In: Codex and Code, Aesthetics, Language and Politics in an Age of Digital Media / [ed] Peter Berkesand, Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press , 2010, p. 87-101Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 22.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Introduction: Security Studies and American Literary History2016In: American Literary History, ISSN 0896-7148, E-ISSN 1468-4365, Vol. 28, no 4, p. 663-676Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 23.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Globalization2008Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 24.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Lawless Intervals: Washington Irving's Astoria and the Procession of Empire2010In: American Studies in Scandinavia, ISSN 0044-8060, Vol. 42, no 1, p. 5-24Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 25.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Letting Go of the Cold Facts2013In: Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, ISSN 1753-3171, E-ISSN 1543-1304, Vol. 14, no 4, p. 485-490Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 26.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Melville, Interrupted2011In: ESQ. A Journal of the American Renaissance, ISSN 0093-8297, E-ISSN 1935-021X, Vol. 57, no 4, p. 355-389Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 27.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Melville, Interrupted2011In: ESQ. A Journal of the American Renaissance, ISSN 0093-8297, E-ISSN 1935-021X, Vol. 57, no 4, p. 355-389Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 28.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Narratives of Pre-Emption, Speculations, and of the Anthropocene2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 29.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Narratives of Pre-Emption, Speculations, and of the Anthropocene2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 30.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    No deprivation was insignificant: Failing States, Human Security, and the Worlding of the American Novel2014Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 31.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Review: Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary by Christian Moraru2012In: Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, ISSN 1753-3171, E-ISSN 1543-1304, Vol. 13, no 1-2, p. 201-207Article, book review (Refereed)
  • 32.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Review: Emergency Politics by Bonnie Honig2011In: American Studies in Scandinavia, ISSN 0044-8060, Vol. 42, no 2, p. 101-105Article, book review (Refereed)
  • 33.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US fiction2019In: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature / [ed] David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin & Frida Beckman, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, p. 429-449Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 34.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Security, Dataveillance, and the Information Aesthetic of Amy Waldman’s The Submission2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 35.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Security Without Care2015Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Shakespeare: The Discovery of America2006In: English Studies in Africa, ISSN 0013-8398, E-ISSN 1943-8117, Vol. 47, no 2, p. 25-40Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 37.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Southern Time: Transnationalism and Temporality in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!2007Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 38.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Specters of the vernacular: Neoliberalism, world literature, and Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings 2022In: Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures / [ed] Christina Kullberg & David Watson, New York; London; Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, p. 203-222Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 39.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Spinoza on the Dump:: Pornography, Work, and Samuel Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders2015Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 40.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Double Life of Risk2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 41.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Financialization of the American Novel2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 42.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    "The Original Romance of America": Transnational Networks in Theodore Parker's American Literary History2018In: World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan--Vernacular Exchange / [ed] Helgesson, Stefan;Mörte Alling, Annika; Lindqvist, Yvonne; Wulff, Helena, Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018, p. 59-69Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 43.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The People’s Remains: Lydia Maria Child and the Demise of Popular Sovereignty2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 44.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Un-Americanness of American Literature2006In: Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, Vol. 7, no 3, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 45.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Transcendental Untranslatables:: Emerson and Translation”.2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 46.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Transcendental Untranslatables: Emerson and Translation2015In: Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets / [ed] Stefan Helgesson and Pieter Vermeulen, New York: Routledge, 2015, p. 209-225Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 47.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Under the Government of Sympathy: Sentimental Histories in Catharina Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts.2013In: Journal of Literary Studies, ISSN 0256-4718 (Print), 1753-5387 (Online), Vol. 29, no 2, p. 6-23Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 48.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    USA: Litersary Worlds--Locations and Orientations2020In: Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures / [ed] Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, and Gabriele Rippl, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, p. 333-354Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 49.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Vanishing Points; or, the Timescapes of the Contemporary American Novel2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 50.
    Watson, David
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Vanishing Points: or, the Timescapes of the Contemporary American Novel2016In: Studia Neophilologica, ISSN 0039-3274, E-ISSN 1651-2308, Vol. 88, p. 57-67Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This essay offers a critical analysis of the concern with large temporal scales in the contemporary American novel. I argue it has resituated human life within a vast temporal landscape - what I refer to as a timescape - that at its extremes relates the human to the nonhuman, and gives form to the possibility of species extinction. The temporal vastness of the contemporary American novel should be read as catastrophic; it even implicates the present in the slowly unfolding crises it seeks to capture. At the same time, this fiction, as I argue through readings of Don DeLillo's Point omega (2010) and Nathaniel Rich's Odds against tomorrow (2013), multiplies temporal scales, some larger and others smaller. It is through the imbrication of differently sized scales and timescapes that these novels articulate their central concern: how the present relates to the future.

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