Dear colleagues,
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The University of Virginia’s Greater Caribbean Studies Network, in association
with the Carter G Woodson Institute and the departments of English, and
Women & Gender Studies invites you to a book chat and celebration of Prof.
Faith L. Smith’s new monograph *Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s
Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century *(Duke, March 2023). In
this study of the turn of the century period just before World War I, Faith
Smith assembles and analyzes a diverse set of Jamaican and Trinidadian
texts, from Carnival songs, poems, and novels to newspapers, photographs,
and gardens, to examine theoretical and literary-historiographic questions
concerning time and temporality, empire and diaspora, immigration and
indigeneity, gender and the politics of desire, Africa’s place within
Caribbeanist discourse, and the idea of the Caribbean itself. Closely
examining these cultural expressions of apparent quiescence, Smith locates
the quiet violence of colonial rule and the insistence of colonial subjects
on making meaningful lives.
Professor Smith will be in conversation with Dr Matthew Chin between 12:00
and 13:30 Eastern Time on April 28th, 2023. The registration link, to join
via Zoom, is
https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrf-GqqTkuG9VhqPEty5jPIxd7zY42e35m
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