*CC14: Dr. Peter Hulme, "Tropical Town: Caribbean Writers in New York in
the Early Twentieth Century" *
The Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
(UPR-RP), invites the academic community and the general public to the
lecture *, "Tropical Town: Caribbean Writers in New York in the Early
Twentieth Century" *by Dr. Peter Hulme, Department of Literature, Film and
Theater Studies, University of Essex, UK. Dr. Peter L. Carlo Becerra,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences,
UPR-RP, will comment the lecture. The activity will be held on Thursday,
January 30, from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. in Amphitheatre Manuel Maldonado Denis
(CRA 108) of Carmen Rivera de Alvarado (CRA) Building, Faculty of the
Social Sciences, UPR-RP.
This lecture will be broadcast LIVE online through the following website:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71
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SUMMARY:
New York has had a Caribbean dimension from its very earliest years, a
dimension boosted in the twentieth century by massive immigration and by
movement back and forth, all of which has had literary consequences. My
particular interests in the project outlined in this paper are threefold:
to look more closely at the early part of the twentieth century, which has
been less studied; to pay particular attention to the interaction between
writers from different islands; and to study the engagement of Hispanic
writers with US writers through the short-lived but influential
Pan-American literary movement.
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Humberto García-Muñiz, Ph.D.
Director
Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
PO Box 23345, San Juan, PR 00931
tel. 764-0000, x-4212, 787-763-2943
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