Event overview
3-Day Conference including open-event reading by Earl Lovelace and a performance of work by Professor Femi Osofisan
This will be the second in a series of three international conferences produced by the Pinter Centre as part of our AHRC-funded research project entitled
'Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Diasporic Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era'
Through performed papers, academic papers and workshops, the goal of the conference will be to address the central question:
'Is fracturing central to postcolonial narrativity?'
* How has the use of non-western forms transformed aesthetics in
postcolonial writing and performance?
* Locations, Dislocations & Postcolonialisms
* Are diasporic identities the same as fractured identities?
* Narrative hybridity & heteroglossia in the global world
* Transformations of narrative in new technology
* Contesting the post- in Postcolonial [writing and performance? BP]
* Intersections of diasporas and diasporic writing
* First nation/Indigenous writing and performance and the Transformation
of narrative
* Postcolonial/postmodernism revisited
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2010 | 10:00am - 5:00pm |
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