Event overview
RECONFIGURATIONS: Remaking Narrative, Reinventing Genre in Postcolonial and Diasporic Writing and Performance - the third Conference in the AHRC-funded 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' project
The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing is delighted to announce the final international conference in the 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' 3-year AHRC project.
Caryl Phillips in Conversation with Blake Morrison
Bonnie Greer discusses her work on Langston Hughes
Readings by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bernadine Evaristo, Romesh Gunesekera, Ardashir Vakil, Aamer Hussein, Beverley Naidoo, Maura Dooley, Monique Roffey, Gabriel Gbadamosi
New Play by Ade Solanke (Playwright in Residence)
Poetry and Fiction Scratch Night hosted by Jack Underwood
Panel on Decolonising Shakespeare with Dorothy Gould, Hugh Quarshie, Osita Okagbue and Robert Gordon
Academic papers by Denise deCaires Narain, Lauri Ramey, Jessica Peart, Janis Jefferies, Vic Seidler and others
Performance papers by James Gibbs, David Piemer, Mairi Neeves and more
Daljit Negra (Poet in Residence) reads and presents poetry workshop with local schoolchildren
Other contributions from Susheila Nasta, Diane Abbot MP, Anthony Joseph
FREE to all students.
b.pester@gold.ac.uk to book a place.
Papers and panels will be along the following themes.
*Reinventing genres in contemporary postcolonial and diasporic writing and performances
*Fractured narrative as dissent
*Reconfigured forms, reconfigured identities
*Disassembling the grand narratives; telling stories after Empire.
*Multistranded pasts, multiple voices.
*Reshaping modes of life writing.
*Performing identities; identities as performance.
*Fragmentation as a rejection of patriarchy
*Poetry and its transformations in postcolonial and diasporic contexts.
*Reconfiguring the cultural scene; new presences in contemporary writing and performance.
Please send all submissions and queries to b.pester@gold.ac.uk
Please see our website for more details about the Pinter Centre and the Beyond the Linear Narrative project.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/pinter-centre
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Nov 2011 |
9:45am - 9:30pm Wasafiri, Play: Pandora's Box, Decolonising Shakespeare |
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| 11 Nov 2011 |
9:45am - 9:30pm Keynote Caryl Phillips, plus Bonnie Greer, and play: Pinter in Other Rooms |
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| 12 Nov 2011 |
10:15am - 7:00pm Romesh Gunesekera, Monique Roffey, Anthony Joseph |
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