Inventing Romance Studies

If the hallmark of literary representation is that it is an unfaithful representation of the real, then perhaps the most literary texts are those that betray (disclose or let slip) that infidelity even as they indulge in it themselves.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
03:36 Questions
04:57 Growing Up and Betrayal
14:24 Romance Studies as Minor Literature
20:09 Credits

For RMST 202.
Website: https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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A Conversation for RMST 202.
With Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) and Jon Beasley-Murray

Lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etyrdFxPV-o
Website: http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
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A Conversation for RMST 202 about Djaïli Amadou Amal's The Impatient. With Djaïli Amadou Amal and Jon Beasley-Murray.
Interpretation by Julien Mowang Ngoula. Many thanks also to Irem Ayan for her advice and help.

Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/snVovb7I0qo
Lecture video:
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This is a novel that is both in transit and in translation.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction 02:23 Politics as Necropolitics11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space26:21 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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The best they can do, it seems, is embrace their fate, fight for their own servitude.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination06:53 Questions11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language19:33 Credits
Full text here: https://rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf
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