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Toni Morrison passes sociopolitical criticism both in her literary and theoretical writing. By destabilizing the myth of the “metaphysics of presence”, she counters forms of representation associated with this concept. Her uses of language turn out as critical instrument to question the common use of language as mimetic restitution of reality, fixed identities as well as hierarchically bound representations. Intermediality works here as tool: Musical, filmic, pictorial structures supplement language’s concept of intermediation – and, thus, becomes a concrete mediator of criticism itself.

The aim of the course is to come closer to Morrison’s critical strategies by reading her texts closely.

Presentations, open discussions guided by prepared questions, paper.

see under methods.

will be announced in the first session.