Travel and Literature I
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Palimpsest as Slave Narrative: A Reading of Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon. Metta Sama, Goddard College
In order to speculate on the ways in which sight, sound, and story are carried and dispersed in slave narratives and how these dispersions create a diasporic narrative reliant on ghosts, (re)memory, and individualism as foot print, this paper will unpack the uses of Brand’s palimpsest in Moon.
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Moving Time and Learning Race in Zakes Mda’s Cion. Melisa Klimaszewski, Drake University
This paper's argument illustrates that Zakes Mda's Cion explores African and African American understandings of race in order to understand diaspora as a concept that includes movements across time and to insist upon the past, present, and future as simultaneously experienced realms.
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Tropic Asunder. Louis Bousquet, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
In “Platform” Michel Houellebecq opposes sexual tourism in Thailand to the disenchantment experienced in Western societies. His hero tries to reconcile the harsh laws of the free market and his fledgling sexuality. But “homunculus touristicus” cannot escape the ruthless fate that his moral complacency creates.
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