Re-Charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
A talk by Pablo Mukherjee
A talk by Pablo Mukherjee
Testimony for the Future: State Redemption as an Art of the Impossible in Contemporary Novels on Genocide In my book project, “Arts of the Impossible: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Reconstructing State Memory and Collective Trauma in Contemporary Literature,” I examine how and why non-Western writers from 1984 to the present fabricate several genres of archival...
A conversation on the themes in professor Yogita Goyal's latest book Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. Where Goyal reads current literature to uncover the links between contemporary concepts of freedom and bondage--from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide--and the antebellum genre of the slave narrative.
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Summer Kim Lee, Mellon Faculty Fellow, English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College Talk Title: “Cold Leftovers: Touching Asian Femininity’s Material Remains” Talk Description This talk engages with iterations of exoticized, hypersexualized Asian femininity in David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly (1988), filmmaker and scholar Mila Zuo’s short film Carnal Orient (2016), and artist Alison Kuo’s...