La prochaine séance du séminaire de l’axe Transculturalismes du laboratoire VALE (Sorbonne Université), co-organisé par Jaine Chemmachery et Alexis Tadié, aura lieu le 5 février 2026. Nous nous retrouverons de 18h à 19h30 à la Maison de la Recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris), en salle 001, pour entendre une présentation de Sandeep Bakshi (Université Paris Cité) intitulée : “Surviving Literature: Resistance and Repair”.

Abstract: The following paper will consider the discipline of literature and art and their reinventions to stress on their commitment to repairing the human. It will theorise the current moment of genocidal epistemicide in its relation to literature and art to assess their position in embodying our worlds. The relation of literature and repair in such times of gigantic debris appears more-than-ever tenuous. Foregrounding such critical reflections on literature’s survival in our colonial present, this paper attempts to theorise literature and art of repair, which repudiate attachment to metaphors that they recreate in order to survive.