Hawkins hocks a hack
In this conversation, I will present my engagement with hacking as a literary and scholarly idea in Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature (Routledge 2023). For our shared project of exploring ‘metaphors of reception,’ any specific case study generates questions of scope, limitations, alternatives, and advantages. Why did I choose hacking as a central concept for a monograph about the influence of ancient Greco-Roman material on Haitian literature? How would the book have been different if it were framed around another metaphor (e.g., the hermeneutic triangle, the horizon of expectations, appropriation, translation)? Such questions will open onto wider topics about the general applicability of hacking (or any specific metaphor) to reception studies and its role in mapping the reception of reception studies.
Sponsored by the Humanities Institute Working Group: Metaphors of Reception, Reception as Metaphor
