Kafka's Ape-Readings in Decolonial Narrative

  • March 9, 2021
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 CST
  • Zoom
  • Margaret DiMarco, mschnering@luc.edu
  • free
  • Not open to the public.
  • https://www.luc.edu/150/scholars/
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    150th Anniversary Scholar Series: Kafka's Ape-Readings in Decolonial Narrative Ethic
    Hille Haker, PhD

    An interpretation of one of Franz Kafka's famous short stories: A Report to an Academy, a story about the de-humanization of people and peoples in European and, one may add, in North American zoos and expositions, including at the World Fair in Chicago in 1892. This piece explores enslavement and colonial civilization, domination and submission, and history, understood as event and narrative. Written at the beginning of the 20th century, Kafka's story could not be more actual at a time of reckoning with historical justice that finds everyone *entangled in stories* (Schapp), though in multiple different ways. The Lecture explores the historical background of Kafka's story, the colonial mindset of the *Academy,* and the subversive ethics via storytelling. Narrative Ethics, Dr. Haker will show, offers tools to analyze ideologies and deconstruct normative orders of misrecognition in the hope to show the *fly a way out of the bottle*(Wittgenstein).

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