Materia
Speakers): Evan Alterman and Alberto Quintero
We are thrilled to announce a reading discussion led by Evan Alterman (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Alberto Quintero (Modern Thought & Literature).
Evan will discuss hybrid language, space, and temporality in Vladimir Korolenko's "Makar's Dream" as a reflection of Korolenko as a product of empire and as an authorial technique establishing moral relativism between narrator and reader. Alberto will address Severo Sarduy's Baroque theory of transvestism as a method of simulation that does not seek to imitate gender, but the complete dissolution of the self. In preparation for our discussion, please read the following short pieces (attached to this message): Vladimir Korolenko's "Makar's Dream" (1883) and excerpts from Severo Sarduy's Simulation (1989).