This talk engages the theories on nonviolence articulated by Leela Gandhi and Judith Butler together with the ethical poetics created by Michelle Cliff and Toni Morrison, with the aim to argue for the urgent necessity, in our violence-torn world, of a cultural revolution rooted in an everyday practice of negativity and becoming less for building a radical democracy.

Prof. Dr. Giovanna Covi ist Professorin für Angloamerican Literature and Gender Studies an der Università di Trento.