Event overview
The final GLITS will take place on March 26th:
Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths): 'Heterobiography: Form, History, Ethics'
This seminar will take place at Hatcham House, starting at **5pm**.
Please note this will be the last GLITS of this academic year,
although the first ever GLITS conference --'Mindful of Otherness:
Literature and Ethics'-- will be taking place on June 13th.
(Conference webpage:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/literature-and-
ethics/)
One of Lucia's recent articles is available as reading for the
seminar, and can be collected outside of WT405.
Abstract:
"Heterobiographies", or auto/biographies of others, by others (or,
more precisely, fictional autobiographies of historical individuals)
raise, through their narrative, stylistic and grammatical forms, a
number of complex questions about historical circumstances and
subjects, about our historical (re)contructions, about the ethics of
the representation of another. The texts I discuss in my project
range from the heterobiographies of outlaws to those of exiles, from
those of emperors and tyrants to those of artists, writers, and
critics - or their wives. In many cases, these categories overlap
(there are exiled poets and murderous critics). Some of these texts
would comfortably be labelled postmodernist; others would be better
represented by a notion of littérature engagée, others have been
ascribed to "resistance literature"; all of them, more or less
directly, construct a "double I" whose dialogic nature raises
questions that concern the right to speak, the ethics of
representation, the negotiation of historical specificity and
definitions of "the human subject".
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/glits.php
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2009 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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