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Indian Ocean Crossings: Archive and Aesthetics

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Indian Ocean Crossings: Archive and Aesthetics

Conversation
Feb 27, 2015, 4:00 pm
English Department Lounge (Room 4406)
Periplus Ancient Map (Wikipedia, Public Domain)

How are archives shaped over time by poets, historians, scholars? What are the connections between lyric time and the time of history? And what of migration—how are new geographies illuminated, selves created? We will consider these questions in relation to Indian Ocean crossings, focusing on questions of memory and the transmission of cultural knowledge, affective life and self-inscription in the face of a fluid world. Join Kai Kresse(Columbia); Sylviane Diouf (Schomburg, NYPL); Meena Alexander (The Graduate Center, CUNY; Christopher Ian Foster (PhD Program in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY) for this conversation.

Meena Alexander
Sylviane Diouf
Christopher Ian Foster

Kai Kresse

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Cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English, the Postcolonial Studies Group, IRADAC and the Advanced Research Collaborative

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5/9/14, 2-4pm! Sonali Perera No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization

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Sonali Perera
No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization
May 9, 2014, 2pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409
Discussant: Tracy Riley

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No Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of working-class fiction by considering a range of international texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship. Her readings connect the literary radicalism of the 1930s to the feminist recovery projects of the 1970s, and the anticolonial and postcolonial fiction of the 1960s to today’s counterglobalist struggles, building a new portrait of the twentieth century’s global economy and the experiences of the working class within it.

Sonali Perera is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, working-class literature, feminist theory, and globalization studies. She has published articles in Differences and PMLA.
Hosted by the CUNY GC Postcolonial Studies Group. For more information and
copies of pre-circulated readings, please email Tracy Riley at triley@gc.cuny.edu.