In this session, Cecilia Davidsson and Magnus Eriksson from Linnaeus University in Sweden will present and critically analyze a challenging exercise for their Creative Writing students: Writing about a taboo. There ara external taboos, created by society's norms, but also internal taboos related to personal experience. In this exercise, we want the students to ask themselves: What is the worst thing I can write about? What is my taboo? Do I dare to write about it? Do I dare letting other people read the piece? The aim of the task is to get our students to test their own limits.

Innehåller essäerna "Om upplösningen av metatexten i konstnärlig forskning", "Den historiska romanen: Fiktion, fakticitet och metakritik", "När texten hotar sig själv: Julio Cortázar och Torbjörn Elensky", "Musik och politik: Ett tolkningsproblem", "Musik som otherizing", "Blues, country och känslans autenticitet", "Countrymusiken som kritik och motstånd".