Event overview
Professor Osita Okagbue, Head of Department for Theatre and Performance, delivers his Inaugural Lecture
The postcolonial project sets out to destabilise, relativise and shift the margin-centre relationship, while diaspora pokes a finger in the eye of the nation. The Margin in the Centre… offers a look at the ontological paradox of the postcolonial diaspora intellectual forced to speak from an alien ‘centre’.
For, on the one hand, the margin-in-the-centre postcolonial intellectual is at ‘war’ with the centre on behalf of the margin. But paradoxically, being in the centre corners the diaspora intellectual in a liminal/neither-centre-nor-margin space, an intellectual no-man’s land where he speaks for nobody but himself.
For unlike the normal liminal which is transitory, the margin-in-the-centre liminality is fixed and hence the eternal homelessness of the diaspora postcolonial academic. Skipping from Hegel, through Said to Bhabha and Spivak, the paper traces the fractured journey of the postcolonial from the margin to the centre with all the burden, baggage, mini battles, betrayals and anomie encountered along the way.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 14 Jun 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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