Identity and Alterity

3 Credits.

This seminar explores the notions of identity and alterity in ways that undo their oppositional configuration. Around two German novels, available in translation (probably Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina, 1971, and Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Ada’s Room, 2021), we will discuss a variety of theoretical approaches to questions of identity and alterity (Hegel, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminist and queer theory, post- and de-colonial theory, postmigrant thinking, new materialisms, translation studies).