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Dear All

Just a quick reminder that our November postcolonial literature events kick 
off today with Sharmila Sen's seminar.  We also now have
the full programme for the colloquium on Friday 25th, and further details 
about Ishtiyaq Shukri's seminar on the 30th.  Please see
below.

Kind regards,
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures


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Department of South Asia seminar in association
with the Centre for Gender

SHARMILA SEN
(English, Harvard University)

"Our Flavour is Greater: exile and return in V.S. Naipaul's 'An Area Of 
Darkness'"

< About the speaker > Sharmila Sen is assistant professor of English at 
Harvard, specializing in postcolonial anglophone literatures
from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. She has published on francophone 
African novels, contemporary Caribbean fiction,
language politics in South Asian anglophone texts, and popular Bombay 
cinema. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary
project on border cultures in South Asia and its diasporas.

WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER, 3PM

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

All Welcome !!!


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RESEARCH STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
Friday 25 November 2005, Room 116, SOAS

8:30-8:50       Registration and tea/coffee/croissants

8:50-9:00       Welcome

9:00-9:45       POSTCOLONIAL TENSIONS
Chair: TBA

What is the Postcolonial?
Toyin Adepoju (University College London)

How Not to Read Rushdie in Bangladesh: The Other 'Readers' of The Satanic 
Verses Manmay Zafar (Wadham College, University of Oxford)

The Political Implications Of Tensions Between Individuals And Their 
Families In Singaporean Novels In English
Nicky Garsten (SOAS, University of London)

9:45-10:00      Discussion

10:00-10:45     THE POSTCOLONIAL SELF
Chair: TBA

The Quest For Self-Identity In Postcolonial Indian Anglophone And Maghrebian 
Francophone Literature
Gita Mohan (University of Salford)

Wearing Veils and Crossing Borders: Metaphors against Myths in Edwidge 
Danticat's the Farming of Bones
Marika Preziuso (Birkbeck College, University of London)

"Representative" of British Asian fiction? The critical reception of Monica 
Ali's Brick Lane'
Ruth Maxey (University College London)

10:45-11:00     Discussion

11:00-11:30     POSTCOLONIAL BORDERS
Chair: Dr Amina Yaqin (South Asia, SOAS)

Consuming Borders: cultural constructions of the India Bangladesh Border 
Asst-Professor Sharmila Sen (Harvard University)

11:30-11:40     Discussant: Dr Kaushik Bhaumik (Ferguson Centre, Open 
University)

11:40-12:00     General Discussion and Closing Remarks

By advance registration only.
Event is free to SOAS students, £5 charge for other students
Email: [log in to unmask]  Tel. 020 7898 4267


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ISHTIYAQ SHUKRI
'Democracy and Terror: a literary view'

Described as a "brave debut," Shukri's first novel 'The Silent Minaret' was 
recently awarded the EU Literary Award in Johannesburg
for best first novel
 by a South African writer.

< About the speaker >

Ishtiyaq Shukri is a South African writer and author of The Silent Minaret 
(Jacana 2005). Described as a "brave debut," Shukri's
first novel was recently awarded the EU Literary Award in Johannesburg for 
best first novel by a South African writer.According to
the judges, headed by South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, Shukri's 
novel "investigates what happens to belief when
personal ideals are betrayed by world events, while at the same time shining 
light on an [Islamic] subculture that is controversial
and misunderstood."

The Silent Minaret revolves around the disappearance of a young South 
African student and anti-apartheid activist, Issa Shamsuddin,
from Finsbury Park at the height of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The story 
of Issa's mysterious disappearance from "war on terror"
London unfolds against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa where Issa was 
actively involved in the liberation struggle.

Ishtiyaq Shukri was born in Johannesburg in 1968. He studied English and 
African literature at the
Universities of the Western Cape and Witwatersrand, and South Asian 
Literature at SOAS. He has edited the SOAS Literary Review and
has written for Chimurenga, ITCH and Entheos.

WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER, 5.30pm

Room 116, Main Building, SOAS

All Welcome !!!


For more information about any of these events contact
email: [log in to unmask]  Tel. 020 7898 4267


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AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7898 4267
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4239 or 4399
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures

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