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What papers, books etc. you've always wanted to read or have read and want to share?

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What texts do you know that would be suited for a discussion in a group?

What do you think we could do a session on?

What kind of topics could we discuss?

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Lanser, Susan. ‘Toward (a Queerer and) More (Feminist) Narratology’. Narrative Theory Unbound, edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015, pp. 23–42, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8j6sv.6. JSTOR.

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Lanser, Susan. ‘Toward (a Queerer and) More (Feminist) Narratology’. Narrative Theory Unbound, edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan Lanser, Ohio State University Press, 2015, pp. 23–42, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8j6sv.6. JSTOR.

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The introduction to one of the major publications in the field.

Concerned with the history and future of feminist narratology and its relationship to queer approaches

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Novella "Open Throat" (2023) by Henry Hoke

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Novella "Open Throat" (2023) by Henry Hoke

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The novella is told from the perspective of a queer mountain lion, who is forced deeper into human territory as the story progresses. The text negotiates topics of human-nonhuman entanglement and intersectionality in various ways and through different characters the protagonist encounters. Especially interesting is, that the narrator rarely assigns themselves human or nonhuman properties and no gender.

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I want to suggest an intersectional text between Asian American Studies and Narratology that I'm reading for my study, which can be relevant to our RA.

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Narrative Theory and Asian American Literature

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Flash Fiction: Girl (1978) by Jamaica Kincaid

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Flash Fiction: Girl (1978) by Jamaica Kincaid

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Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk bare-head in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum in it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don't sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don't eat fruits on the street-flies will follow you; but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on; this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming; this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease; this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they don't have a crease; this is how you grow okra-far from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants; when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it; this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard; this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming; be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles-you are not a boy, you know; don't pick people's flowers-you might catch something; don't throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all; this is how to make a bread pudding; this is how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don't like, and that way something bad won't fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh; but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread? ♦

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Fiction, from 1978: "This is how to love a man, and if this doesn't work there are other ways."

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Guest Lecture : "Anthropofugal Fictions" by Dr Simona Bartolotta

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Guest Lecture : "Anthropofugal Fictions" by Dr Simona Bartolotta

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Abstract:

This talk will attempt to sketch a model of what I call “the anthropofugal,” which relates to how the literary narrative text negotiates between anthropocentric and anti-anthropocentric impulses. On the one hand, the contemporary flourishing of fiction that is attentive to the nonhuman world in its disparate varieties, together with the attendant theoretical currency of frameworks from posthumanism to material ecocriticism, from object-oriented philosophies to animal and plant studies, leave little doubt that nonhumanity, broadly defined, and the decentering of the human perspective have long been culturally determinant in Western modernity. On the other hand, however, it hardly needs stressing that a total displacement of the human as measure of the production and reception of nonhuman-oriented fiction (or any other art form) is impossible, and would be self-defeating if successful. In this sense, anthropofugal fictions always call into question the possibility of their own interpretation, and often exhibit a certain intractability with respect to even the most intuitive and well-tested norms of literary and cultural readings. Thus, I propose the anthropofugal as a framework that is caught in this bind and aware of it, making the most out of this tension. Its scope is what we may call fictions of epistemic hunger: works that explore the modes, limits, and possibilities of knowledge in the context of the encounter between the mind and the mind-independent world.

The talk will cover the historical and methodological positioning of the anthropofugal. It will also offer examples of the anthropofugal at work through textual examples, in particular Stanisław’s Lem’s His Master’s Voice (1968).

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Workshop “Social Media, Political Reality, and Trump 2.0“ with Dr. Sara Polak 

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Workshop “Social Media, Political Reality, and Trump 2.0“ with Dr. Sara Polak 

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This event is a preparatory workshop for Prof. Greta Olson’s keynote in the afternoon.

"This Will Be the Best Workshop That has Ever Been Given in the History of Workshops!!"

Trump’s use of social media creates participatory, exclusionary political worlds that blur the line between fiction and political reality. Relating to this, Prof. Greta Olsen argues that political attachments today are shaped less by rational argument than by felt intensities such as anger, love, loyalty, and belonging.

In this workshop participants will investigate and experience how affect, play, and platform design interact to reshape political experience, community formation, and democratic life in the digital age. Guided by Dr. Sara Polak’s concept of “play” and “worlding” we will explore and discuss how social media platforms can be used as political “playspaces” in which alternative realities are actively staged and inhabited. Dr. Polak herself will join us online from Leiden for a Q&A session during a part of the workshop.

Preparatory reading: Polak, Sara A. “Donald Trump and Truth Social: Media Platforms Making Exclusionary Worlds.” In Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections, edited by Greta Olson and M. Kreitler, 137–47. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2024.

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Text by Greta Olsen "Love and Hate Online" 

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Text by Greta Olsen "Love and Hate Online" 

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Text by Sara Polak "Donald Trump and Truth Social: Media PlatformsMaking Exclusionary Worlds"

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Text by Sara Polak "Donald Trump and Truth Social: Media PlatformsMaking Exclusionary Worlds"