Event overview
In his talk, Professor Moraru turns to the twin problems of community and justice in the post-September 2011 United States and world at large. The Centre for Identities and Social Justice presents.
Focusing on recent American fiction and theory, specifically on Joseph O’Neill’s 2008 international bestseller Netherland, the lecture approaches O’Neill’s work as a planetary-era project in ethical communality. As Professor Moraru argues, this project shapes not only the book’s main theme (cricket as an athletic and social practice), but also the novel as a whole, along with an entire post-9/11 literature.
Christian Moraru is Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in contemporary American literature, critical theory, as well as comparative literature with emphasis on history of ideas, postmodernism, and the relations between globalism and culture. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including the collection Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (Columbia University Press / EEM Series, 2009) and the monograph Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (University of Michigan Press, 2011). His co-edited volume of essays The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (Northwestern University Press) came out earlier this year. His latest book, the “manifesto” monograph Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press in fall 2015
Dates & times
Date | Time | Add to calendar |
---|---|---|
13 Oct 2015 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Accessibility
If you are attending an event and need the College to help with any mobility requirements you may have, please contact the event organiser in advance to ensure we can accommodate your needs.