Fellows Lecture: Margarita Saona “Entranced Hearts”
September 27, 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W Harrison Street, Suite 153, Chicago, IL 60607
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Margarita Saona
Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics
University of Illinois at Chicago
There are two common narratives of organ transplantation: the heroic one, which depicts it as a miracle, and a horrific one, which depicts it as an aberration. Entranced hearts is a personal exploration of alternative paths in the representation of a heart transplant. From a phenomenological perspective, Margarita Saona recounts experiences that challenge a sense of self without recourse to those inherited narratives. In this presentation, she will explore how different registers of the written word – the analytic language of scholarship, the musicality of poetry, the plot-driven narrative, or the conjectural musings of the essay – present themselves as vehicles for tentative answers to the way illness in general and organ transplantation in particular interpellate us.
Date posted
Sep 2, 2022
Date updated
Feb 3, 2023