Nordsüdlicher Divan: Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South
November 3, 2023
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities
Address
1007 W Harrison, Suite 153, Chicago, IL
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Intercultural and postcolonial approaches to literature have opened up interstitial and transitional discursive spaces that can deprivilege Eurocentric ways of reading via cultural transfers that generate an intercultural semiotics. Intercultural and postcolonial readings take impulses from several works of German and cultural Studies scholars, who have urged a critical re-examination of the history of European scholarship as one conditioned by ideology. Seen from this perspective, re-readings and revisions of the cultural canon ought to aim both to construct “postcolonial alterities” and to deconstruct dichotomies endemic to “the colonial imaginary” (Uerlings).
Our conference contributes to such intercultural and postcolonial projects by centering readings of literature, film, and culture that seek to de-hierarchize the relationship between the Global North and the Global South. Papers will examine representations and discourses that point to postcolonial asymmetries of power, reconfigure concepts of space and identity, and highlight constructions of the reading, listening, and viewing subject that transcend dichotomies of self and other.
Date posted
Oct 10, 2023
Date updated
Oct 31, 2023