L’UNITÉ DE RECHERCHE IMAGINAIRE MEDITERRANÉEN ET INTERCULTURALITÉ. APPROCHES COMPARÉES
AND
GDRI CNRS LITERATURE AND DEMOCRACY (XIXTH– XXI St CENTURIES):
THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE APPROACHES
ORGANISE
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Literature and Democracy, or How to Read History Otherwise
18-19 April 2019
University of Tunis/ FSHST
and
Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Beit-Al-Hikma
I try to rewrite history in order to reflect the point of view of people who have been excluded, because the history we’ve had up to now has only been the history seen from on high, history from the point of view of politicians, generals, militarists and industrialists…
Over the past few decades, the legitimising of History as a truthful, totalising and scientific narrative has been seriously questioned. By this fact alone, the relations between History and Literature are being redefined. Far from bringing back the “old debate” that consists of confronting novelistic narrative and historical narrative, intelligence of the past is in need of writing in the literary sense of the term, just as literature is in need of history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc. At this conference, it seems to us judicious to study the relations between History and Literature as complementary channels of access to the past and to reflect on the various modes of production of narratives (fictional and/or historiographic) that specifically inform the realities underlying them.
This call for papers is restricted to the members of the GDRI