postcolonial

This two-day symposium will be devoted to the discussion of recent developments affecting the production and reception of New Zealand and Pacific literatures in a global context and will focus on a range of issues related to the reading, writing, teaching, translating and marketing of these literatures. Whereas on the one hand New Zealand and Pacific texts are being written, read and circulated as deriving from a culturally specific location, they have also been received, translated, taught and marketed as part of the less narrowly defined category of world literature.

At the “East Indians in the Caribbean Conference” in Trinidad in 1979, Sam Selvon disarmingly titled his opening address “Three into One Can’t Go—East Indian, Trinidadian or West Indian.” He presented the contradictions apparent in competing discourses of identification as the descendants of Indian indentured labourers sought to define themselves in their national and regional contexts. Selvon’s underlying question of how (formerly) indentured labourers establish a sense of belonging in their new environment is applicable to other sites of indentureship like Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Suriname, and Fiji. Another identifying label that should be added to Selvon’s triad is coolie, a pejorative that some Indians have sought to reclaim.

Imaginative Ecologies
A Workshop in Speculative Fiction and Ecopoetics

with Keynote Address by
Kristina Lyons 
Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

November 2th, 2016 – San Francisco State University

Convened by: Martha Kenney (Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University)

The political, economic, cultural, and artistic histories of Ireland are deeply intertwined with its rich tradition of writing in Irish and English, with generations of writers greatly contributing to broader literary categories like the realist novel, European modernism, postmodernism, colonial, and postcolonial literature. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B.

A member-organized panel of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Ryerson University, Toronto

27-30 May 2017