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Post-Colonial Literature II

Session 9 - Sunday 4:30-6:00pm
Henry Hall 107
Presiding Officer: 
Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Barbara Seidman
  1. Text as Re-telling: Such a Long Journey, the Shāhnāmah, and Preserving Cultural Identity. Christina Cook, Clemson University

    The structure of Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey casts the novel as a re-telling of the Shānāmah, both preventing the equation of textual representation and reality and demonstrating how re-telling functions to preserve a non-essentialist cultural identity.

  2. "Willing Liberates": Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Amanda Waugh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    For Dangarembga’s text, Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy offers an alternative explanation for Tambu’s ultimate successful escape and Nyasha’s tragic entrapment. At the same time, Nervous Conditions offers an answer to the question, “How can we read Nietzsche in a post-colonial, feminist context?”

  3. Narrative of the Mother of 1084:Melding the Private with the Public. Shreyashi Mukherjee, Duquesne University

    Using theories of nationalism and gender, I present Mahashweta Devi’s Mother of 1084 as a transformative text that ruptures the boundaries between the private and the public spaces.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed