What are we? On the one hand, we have a subjective experience and a perspective on the world, we are rational, and we seem to be matter in a way that mere physical objects don’t. We are persons. On the other hand, we are embodied beings, intimately related to biological organisms. We have a body. How are these observations related? Can we make sense of our nature without resorting to some form of dualism? In this seminar, we will examine the contemporary debate on the question what we are. A central theme will be the debate over animalism: the view that we are, fundamentally, animals.
"She is a Creole girl and she have the sun in her." What does Creole imply in postcolonial narratives that respond to canonical Victorian novels? Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys flips a series of discourses from identity politics to questions of power. The novel revolves around a Carribean woman who was originally a marginal character in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847). The seminar will focus on strategies of close reading, narratological methods, gendered perspectives on madness as well as critical theories of reception and intersections with early postcolonialism.
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