CLIC nodigt jullie graag uit voor de eerstvolgende WOLEC-sessie die plaatsvindt op woensdag 25 maart van 12:00 tot ten laatste 13:30 in 5C.03. Spreker Lily Beckett (University of Bristol) zal een lezing geven met als titel: "Intermedial References and References to History: How the Past Penetrates Experimental Poetic Texts in the Present".
Lily Beckett is doctoraatsstudent in vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap en cultuurwetenschap aan de Universiteit van Bristol. Haar onderzoek richt zich op intermediale poëzie en de productie daarvan sinds de jaren zeventig – het ‘tijdperk van het neo-imperialisme’ – en haar proefschrift belicht het werk van Cecilia Vicuña, Etel Adnan, Kamau Brathwaite, Bhanu Kapil, Isaac Julien en Linton Kwesi-Johnson. Lily's gepubliceerde onderzoek is beschikbaar (of binnenkort beschikbaar) in Women's Studies en Interfaces.
De voertaal is het Engels. Een broodjeslunch wordt voorzien. We vragen u om uw aanwezigheid ten laatste tegen 20 maart via deze link te bevestigen. Voor meer informatie over WOLEC, klik hier.
Tot dan!
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CLIC is excited to invite you to the next WOLEC session, taking place on Wednesday 25 March from 12:00 till 13:30 in room 5C.03. Lily Beckett (University of Bristol) will give a lecture titled: "Intermedial References and References to History: How the Past Penetrates Experimental Poetic Texts in the Present".
Lily Beckett is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on intermedial poetry and its production since the 1970s - the 'era of neo-imperialism' - and her thesis spotlights the works of Cecilia Vicuña, Etel Adnan, Kamau Brathwaite, Bhanu Kapil, Isaac Julien and Linton Kwesi-Johnson. Lily's published research is available (or forthcoming) in Women’s Studies and Interfaces.
The lecture will be held in English. A sandwich lunch will be provided. We ask you to confirm your presence via this link by 20 March. For more information about WOLEC, click here.
We hope to see you there!
Abstract
Lily Beckett will be exploring the correspondences between intermedial and historical references in two experimental poetic texts: Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue (2015) and Kamau Brathwaite's Barabajan Poems (1994). Considering how Kapil and Brathwaite inscribe the ephemeral media forms of performance and sound into the pages of their printed works, she will ask to what extent such 'intermedial references' (Rajewsky 2005: 53) function as indexical signs of the past. Doing so, she will examine how the poets' intermedial invocations of the past - specifically, histories of colonial domination and anti-colonial resistance - might illuminate the neo-imperialist contours of their respective present-day situations to which they are responding in their works: from the resurgence of the British far-right in the 2010s, to the hyper-development of Barbados's tourism economy in the 1990s.