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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** 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 ____________________ 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 !!! ____________ 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 __________________ 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 !!! 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