Visceral writing and affect transmission as feminist strategy
As a research group at the department of language and literature, NTNU, our discussions start out from the observation that recent texts by women authors point towards an affecting aesthetics which affords physical reactions in their readers. Potential reading experiences of nausea, vertigo and disorientation are repeatedly indicated through textual strategies of visceral representation that focus on affect…
Project cultures of anticipation now closed
With my latest publication, "Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature" my research project on cultures of anticipation is now closed for the time being. The project, which I started in 2017, has been focusing on analysing how different cultures in the early modern period and in the 21st century shaped a liminal concept of futurity - of developing a relationship to a time in, for and from the future - in…
http://nicolefalkenhayner.com/2024/01/17/project-cultures-of-anticipation-now-closed/
New Article in ariel: A Review of International English Literature
Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature Due to contemporary experiences of climate crisis, large-scale migration, and global ruptures such as the spread of COVID-19, futurity has become newly problematized in both public discourse and critical discussions in literary and cultural studies. This article argues that literary texts contribute to the renegotiation of futurity for the…
Came across this passage in Stuart Hall's memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands:
'the dislocations, the strangeness within the self [I experienced on coming face-to-face with England] undermined my desire to write creatively. I couldn't do it from within the culture I found myself inhabiting, from within its imaginary geography. Instead I observed everything... This strengthened my critical as against my creative instincts, a shift which is difficult to undo.'
Explains a lot about why some people are creative writers and others critical theorists. And also why the English novel is like it is - it is too often written from within the culture and its imaginary geography.
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