Alison Bigelow, Assistant Professor, colonial Latin American literature, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Talk Title: Mining Language: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Early Americas Talk Description: Between 1500 and 1820, three out of every four people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved Africans. They arrived to a...
A Reading by Joy Harjo
The Spanish-American Number: Travel, Translation, and the Literary History of Modernism Peter Hulme, University of Essex Mines, Minerals, Mimesis, and Memory Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University This event was organized by the Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies Colloquium and made possible by generous support from the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese.
by Michael Rothberg
“Unruly Visions: The Queer Regional Imaginaries of Sunil Gupta and Agha Shahid Ali” ABSTRACT: This talk considers the work of two contemporary South Asian diasporic artists, the poet Agha Shahid Ali and the photographer Sunil Gupta, within the framework of archive, region, and affect that Gopinath develops in her recently published book Unruly Visions. Gopinath...