Goldsmiths - University of London

Transformations of Narrative in the Postcolonial Era

Conference: Goldsmiths, University of London, Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:00:00 GMT

'Transformations of Narrative in the Postcolonial Era'

This will be the second in a series of three international conferences

given by the Pinter Centre as part of our 3-year AHRC-funded research project:


'Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era'

Through academic papers, performances and workshops, the goal of the conference will be to address the central question:

‘Is fracturing central to postcolonial narrativity?’

 
Key Note Speakers include the Trinidadian novelist and dramatist Earl Lovelace and the  Nigerian poet and dramatist Professor Femi Osofisan

Proposals for papers are invited on the following themes:

* Is fracturing central to postcolonial narrativity?
 

* How has the use of non-western forms transformed aesthetics in

postcolonial writing and performance?
 

* Locations, Dislocations & Postcolonialisms
 

* Are diasporic identities the same as fractured identities?
 

* Narrative hybridity & heteroglossia in the global world
 

* Transformations of narrative in new technology
 

* Contesting the post- in Postcolonial writing and performance
 

* Intersections of diasporas and diasporic writing
 

* First nation/Indigenous writing and performance and the Transformation

of narrative
 

* Postcolonialism/postmodernism revisited
   

Proposals for performed and academic papers welcome.

All proposals and enquiries to be sent to b.pester@gold.ac.uk

Deadline for papers: 31st August - Deadline had passed, but please contact b.pester@gold.ac.uk if you are still interested in taking part in the conference.