“Perdre le Nord“: literary subject constructions in the narrative imagined space of the North in French Canadian contemporary literatures from Québec, Acadie and autochtonous territories

Jody Danard (RTG Contradiction Studies), Helen Stephan (RTG Contradiction Studies), Prof.Dr. Karen Struve (University Bremen)

01/31/2023 2:30 pm –4:00 pm

U Bremen GRA2 0030

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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”
Martin Nonhoff

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel

limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel