The Postcolonial Book, 25 March 2011, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
You are cordially invited to attend a one day research colloquium at Queen Margaret University on the topic of the postcolonial book. This colloquium will feature new research about the production, reception and circulation of the postcolonial book and related cultural commodities, institutions and practices. Papers will consider how postcolonial realities have been shaped by the global trade in cultural commodities, and will highlight the intersecting legal, social, political and economic forces that impinge upon the postcolonial cultural field and communications circuit. The colloquium is supported by strategic research theme funding from Queen Margaret University.
The colloquium, which will include lunch, is free for postgraduates and academics from UK Higher Education establishments. To register for this event, please visit: http://conferencing.qmu.ac.uk/index.php/CPB/
Numbers are limited to 20, so early registration is advisable.
Schedule:
9.00am-9.15am / coffee and welcome
9.15am-10.45am / Session I: Publishing
Caroline Davis: 'Publishing Wole Soyinka: Oxford University Press and the Creation of "Africa's Own William Shakespeare"'
Alistair McCleery: 'Penguin and post-colonial publishing 1948-1972'
10.45am-11.00am / coffee
11.00am-12.30pm: Session II: Readership and Reception
James Procter: 'Not Reading Brick Lane'
Ruvani Ranasinha: 'Writing and Reading Sri Lanka: the shifting politics of cultural translation, consumption and the implied reader in contemporary diasporic Sri Lankan fiction'
12.30pm-1.30pm / lunch (provided)
1.30pm-3.00pm / Session III: 'Centres' and 'Peripheries'
Peter McDonald: 'The Question of the Book in South Africa'
Ana Margarida Dias Martins: 'Gender and the "Postcolonial Exotic" in Lusophone Postcolonial literatures'
3.00pm-3.15pm / coffee
3.15pm-5.15pm / Session IV: Documentaries, Archives, and Festivals
Gail Low: '"A Commonwealth of Words?": Discoursing on the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Arts Festival of 1965'
Andrew van der Vlies: 'Peripatetic Matter: Ivan Vladislaviæ and the archaeology of art in the ordinary'
Graham Huggan: 'Attenborough, Colonialism, and the British Tradition of Nature Documentary'
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