The Colloquium on the Politics of Literature
Abstract:
The talk reconsiders the relationship between art and politics, putting forward a definition of the political as a struggle not simply over who is allowed to speak but over the boundaries of intelligibility itself. Treating the ostensibly "non-political" or "non-sensical" moment as the very site of politics and focusing on the aesthetic representation of atrocity, Hanscom asks what kind of remembering is adequate to the traumatic event and how the representation of such memory can avoid both a cycle of endless melancholic return and the forgetting that accompanies the “memorization” of history.
Bio:
Chris Hanscom is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches courses on Korean literature and film and is director of the UCLA Korean Humanities Initiative.
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