A New Language – a new life? Translingual literature by contemporary women writers

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This symposium will bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in the language fields of Italian, French and German. We will explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. Among the questions we will explore are the following: • Is translingual writing perceived by the […]

Contemporary Jewish Women’s Writing in Germany and Austria – A ‘Minor’ Literature?

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

This one-day workshop aims to probe whether the label and concept of a ‘minor literature’ (Deleuze/Guattari, 1975) can be usefully applied to contemporary writing by female Jewish authors in Germany and Austria. The workshop will explore what the term ‘minor’ could mean and contribute when discussing a broad range of contemporary authors and their aesthetics […]