{"id":959,"date":"2021-04-29T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=959"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:41:01","slug":"book-launch-speaking-politically-adorno-and-postcolonial-fiction-may-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch-Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction, May 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eleni Philippou (Oxford) has shared with us news of the upcoming book launch for her recently published monograph, Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction<\/em> (Routledge). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Details on the launch are available here: https:\/\/www.occt.ox.ac.uk\/discussion-group-book-launch-speaking-politically-adorno-and-postcolonial-fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Eleni Philippou (Oxford)
Daniele Nunziata (Oxford)
Monday, May 17, 2021 – 13:00 to 14:00
Livestreamed via Microsoft Teams on 17 May
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Join Dr Eleni Philippou in conversation with Dr Daniele Nunziata to discuss her monograph, Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction. In this monograph Theodor Adorno\u2019s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity \u2013 apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it argues that Adorno can speak to texts with which he is not historically associated; and second, it uses Adorno\u2019s theory to unlock the liberatory potential of authors or novels traditionally understood to be “apolitical”. While addressing Adorno\u2019s uneven critical response and dissemination in the Anglophone literary world, the book also showcases Adorno\u2019s unique reading of the literary text both in terms of its innate historical content and formal aesthetic attributes. Such a reading refuses to read postcolonial texts exclusively as political documents, a problematic (but changing) tendency within postcolonial studies. In short, the book operates as a two-way conversation asking: “What can Adorno\u2019s concepts give to certain literary texts?” but also reciprocally, “What can those texts give to our conventional understanding of Adorno and his applicability?” This book is an act of rethinking the literary in Adornian terms, and rethinking Adorno through the literary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book can be purchased here: https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Speaking-Politically-Adorno-and-Postcolonial-Fiction\/Philippou\/p\/book\/9780367437930<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bios: Dr Eleni Philippou is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at OCCT and the Principal Investigator of the Prismatic Jane Eyre Schools project. Beyond her key research interests in postcolonial and world literature, she is also interested in critical theory, comparative literature, and translation studies. She is an award-winning poet, with a number of poems published in both British and international anthologies and journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Daniele Nunziata is a Lecturer in English Literature at St Anne\u2019s College, University of Oxford. His research on postcolonial literature has been published in numerous journals (including PMLA and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing) and in the Columbia University Press series, Studies in World Literature. He is a contributor to Writers Make Worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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