Forum on 15 Lecture on “Heterotopias in German Literary Exoticism”
October 11, 2017
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Richard Sperber
Associate Professor at Carthage College
Wednesday, October 11th • 4:00pm • 1501 UH
Scholarship on European literary exoticism around 1900 largely consists of modernist and postcolonial readings of canonized British and French texts, exploring either the self-fashioning of a European bourgeois male in an exotic space or his acts of appropriation. The recent spatial turn in this scholarship, textual examples from other European exoticist literatures, and the inclusion of non-canonized texts challenge these readings. Focusing on German literary exoticism and drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this talk will explore the German rewriting of key spaces in British and French exoticisms, such as the beach, the hut, and the indigenous village.
Sponsored by:
- Germanic Studies
- Institute for the Humanities
- School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics
Date posted
Jun 15, 2020
Date updated
Jun 15, 2020