DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Cover von Research in African Literatures "Namwali Serpell´s the old Drift Disruption"

Introduction. Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption

Article / Paper

Deborah Nyangulu

2022

Research in African Literatures 53(3). 1-22. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/900030

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power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel

limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”
Gisela Febel

hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano

name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”
Ingo H. Warnke

Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”
Kerstin Knopf