POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP
Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda
An AHRC Student-Led Initiative
Saturday 7 November 2009
10-4
Goldsmiths, University of London
CALLING ALL POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
This one-day interactive workshop entitled Words from Other Worlds:
Critical Perspectives on Imoinda seeks to collectively develop a
range of critical perspectives on Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She
Who Will Lose Her Name (2007).
Anim-Addo's text is a re-writing of Aphra Ben's Oroonoko (1688). The
first libretto by an African Caribbean woman befittingly tells the
story of an enslaved African woman who gives birth to a child which
symbolises the beginning of the Caribbean Islands as modern
nation-states. This work articulates the long and complex history of
Atlantic slavery, colonisation and Empire which is a haunting yet
crucial and integral part of European history. The critical reception
of this text, like other diaspora literatures by ethnic minorities,
remains marginal in comparison to the critical attention given to the
English classic travel narratives, which often, although set in the
same historic period, remain blind to African Caribbean experiences
of imperial conquest. As the English travel narratives fail to give
an adequate 'speaking voice' to this native-subject; the teaching of
these literatures echoes a similar blindness as Anim-Addo (2006;
2008) & Les Back (2008), have routinely argued both collectively and
individually.
Words from Other Worlds, aims to address this absence by producing a
virtual and print collection of student perspectives on this 'minority text'.
This workshop will be an opportunity for postgraduate students from
all disciplines to share their perspectives and work interactively
with selected specialists in literature, visual arts, music and
museums heritage. The workshop is designed to encourage the exchange
of concepts, images, and ideas that will contribute to the journal
and website.
Admission: FREE
If you wish to attend this event you will need to register by sending
an email to [log in to unmask] Further details can be found at
www.gold.ac.uk/wow.
Closing Date: Friday 30 October 2009
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Marl'ene Edwin MA, FRSA
Churchill Fellow
Centre for Caribbean Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Tel: 020 7919 7402
Fax: 020 7919 7403
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web Site: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/caribbean
Web Site: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/creole
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