Dr Norbert Bugeja has delivered the keynote speech at the ‘Representation and Hegemony’ 6th Annual Conference of the Higher Institute of Applied Languages and Computer Sciences of the University of Jendouba in Beja, Tunisia.
Dr Bugeja addressed the aesthetics of refuge from the point of view of representation in a life writing context. During his presentation, Dr Bugeja explored some of the characteristics that make life writing increasingly a genre of choice for many writers today, arguing for the complex and intriguing relationship between literature, dissent, political allegiance and political memory as existing at the basis of formal and stylistic decisions.
Dr Bugeja addressed the aesthetics of refuge from the point of view of representation in a life writing context. During his presentation, Dr Bugeja explored some of the characteristics that make life writing increasingly a genre of choice for many writers today, arguing for the complex and intriguing relationship between literature, dissent, political allegiance and political memory as existing at the basis of formal and stylistic decisions.
Dr Bugeja’s research on the cultural and literary politics of post-Jasmine Tunisia has led, amongst other publications, to the article titled ‘Hyper-Despotism of the Bullet — Post-Bardo Tunisia and its (Unforgiving) Memorial Communiquè’ (EUT, 2015), which discussed the author’s experience at the Bardo National Museum days after the terror attack of March 2015, as well as the poetry of Moëz Majed, one of Tunisia’s foremost poets. The article, published in the ‘Unforgiving Memory’ issue of Prospero guest-edited by Prof. Marilena Parlati (University of Padua).
Dr Bugeja is also active within the literary scene in Tunisia and continuously advises for the Festival International de Poésie de Sidi Bou Saïd, one of the most important literary festivals in the Arab world.
Photo credit: Katelia Art.
