TY - BOOK ID - 137341371 TI - Witness literature : proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium AU - Engdahl, Horace AU - Nobel Centennial Symposium PY - 2002 SN - 1281908835 9786611908836 9812706518 PB - River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - History in literature. KW - Literature and history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137341371 AB - In December 2001, the centennial of the first Nobel Prize was celebrated in Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the Swedish Academy organized a symposium on the theme of "Witness Literature". Talks were given by speakers from Asia, Africa and Europe, including three Nobel laureates in literature: Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Gao Xingjian.The main objective of the symposium was to examine the concept of witness literature and its relevance to contemporary literature. This concept is relatively new and has not yet been defined clearly by literary criticism and scholarship. The discussion prima ER -