I also joined the list a few months ago and kept postponing introducing
myself. But once a dynamic process is started, it continues almost by
itself!
I am French and have been teaching in France at university level for 8
years. My PhD was on the writing of childhood in Caribbean literature
(writers like Kincaid, Brodber, Edgell, Collins but also Lamming,
Anthony…). I still have a weak spot for the writers who resort to
childhood in their writing strategies, but my interests have been lying
recently in the Caribbean diaspora more generally & migrant writing —
particularly Caribbean-Canadian writers, like Nourbese Philip, Dionne
Brand, Althea Prince, Cyril Dabydeen, André Alexis… I shouldn't say so
here but I have also been unfaithful to Caribbean writers a couple of
times recently, turning my interests towards South Asian writers like
Mistry or Ondaatje. I am also focusing on Caryl Phillips and Fred
D'Aguiar and neo-slave narratives, and you may have seen a call for
papers that I recently circulated on the Caribbean list and on the web,
for a colloquium I'm organizing at Montpellier University in April 2003,
'Revisiting slave narratives'; I also passed an announcement about a
conference to be held on Naipaul in November (for the pleasure of
controversy!). I will keep the list posted when I have worked out the
definitive programme of both events. Please email me if you want some
information; the deadline for the cfp about slave narratives is
September 15, so you still have time…
Best regards,
Judith Misrahi-Barak
Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III
Department of Anglophone Studies
3, route de Mende
34199 Montpellier cedex 5
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