Event overview
Dr Alison Donnell and Dr Rachel Farebrother present papers for this latest AHRC-funded event from the Pinter Centre's 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' We will finish in time for those wishing to attend the Richard Hoggart lecture at 6pm
Dr Alison Donnell's paper is entitled:‘All that was melted is solid again: writing and the demands of the metropolis in the work of Una Marson’
Dr Rachel Farebrother's paper is entitled: 'The Collage Aesthetic in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston'
The event will be chaired by Professor Helen Carr
About the speakers:
Dr. Alison Donnell is a reader at University of Reading. Her research interest is postcolonial writings and theory, in particular Caribbean literature and black British writings. She has also developed a research interest in those areas in which she teaches, particularly feminist theory and its intersection with postcolonial theory.
Recent publications include:
* Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary and Critical History (Routledge: London, 2006)
* 'FEELING GOOD? LOOK AGAIN!: Feel good movies and the vanishing points of liberation in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham', Journal of Creative Communications (Nov 07)
She has been Joint Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies since the journal's inception a decade ago in 1998 and serve on the Editorial Board of The Journal of West Indian Literature.
She has also published many articles and chapters on Caribbean and postcolonial writings. As well as several edited collections, including
* Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture (ed.) (Routledge, 2002)
* [co-edited ]The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, Routledge (1996)
Dr. Rachel Farebrother teaches at Swansea University
Rachel’s primary research interests lie in African American literature and culture, especially the Harlem Renaissance. A second area of research interest is postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on South Asian writers such as Anita Desai, Vikram Seth and Bharati Mukherjee.
Rachel is completing a monograph entitled The Collage Aesthetic of the Harlem Renaissance, which explores the relationship between Anglo-American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, mapping out transatlantic stylistic and thematic connections.
Research Supervision: Rachel would be pleased to supervise research degrees in twentieth-century African American literature and culture, especially the Harlem Renaissance.
Articles:
* ‘Moses and Nation-building: Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European’, Comparative American Studies 5:3 (2007), pp. 333-356
* ‘"[A]dventuring through the pieces of a still unorganized mosaic": Reading Jean Toomer's Collage Aesthetic in Cane’, Journal of American Studies 40:3 (2006), pp. 503-21
* ‘Testing the limits of the Transcultural: Travel, Intertextuality and Tourism in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World and Anita Desai’s The Zigzag Way’, Interactions (Fall 2006), pp. 61-74
* ‘Music and National Identity in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 5:2 (2005), pp. 42-53
* (with Claire Chambers), 'The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka : A Review Article of Literature and Criticism published in 2006', The Year's Work in English Studies, 86 (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 1059-1075
* (with Caroline Herbert), 'The Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka : A Review Article of Literature and Criticism published in 2007', The Year's Work in English Studies, 87 (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 1185-1204
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2010 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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