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Graduate Course
SoSe 19: Insinuation and Double Exposure: Appropriation as Literary Response
Rawi Hage
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I am going to take the stones from the old houses the colonists left behind, remove them one by one, and build my own house, my own language.
–Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
This diagonal force, whose origin is known, whose direction is determined by past and future, but whose eventual end lies in infinity, is the perfect metaphor for the activity of thought.
– Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
Guided by Kamel Daoud’s image of the stones left behind, we will examine literature and art from Lebanon, Cambodia, Algeria and elsewhere which attempt to exist suspended between – and capable of absorbing – past and future.
By what methods do these novels and films – re-constructions, renunciations and even extensions of previous works – transpose their ideas into an ongoing, and sometimes disappearing, future?
How might we converse with and interpret the insinuations, praise, conversations, protests and refusals by literary works of other works of art?
What are the possibilities of auto-critique, composites, blending and re-appropriation in the attempt to regain self- and historical knowledge?
In the spirit of the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorships, we will approach these questions as novelists who create through experimentation. Through fictions and other generative work in both writing and photography, as well as through close readings and spirited discussions, we will attempt to experience – in a hands-on way – what it means to try to see, imagine and construct a house from the stones left behind.
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13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2019-04-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-04-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-05-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-06-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2019-07-10 14:00 - 16:00