Critical Perspectives on Imoinda
Words from Other Worlds is an AHRC funded Student-Led Initiative.
The project will host a multi and interdisciplinary interactive postgraduate workshop in November 2009, to collectively develop a range of critical perspectives on Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (2007) by Joan Anim-Addo; a re-writing of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). Imoinda is the first libretto by an African Caribbean woman which tells the story of an enslaved African woman who gives birth to a child symbolising the beginning of the Caribbean Islands as modern nation-states
By giving voice to this marginal text through public and collaborative discussions, we intend to explore the malleability of the text when read through the eyes of drama, music, art, literature and museum studies. Such a dynamic approach endeavours to produce a range of contemporary, 'new' ways of looking at and beyond the text within a radically ever-changing digital world that offers a space to explore the oral and visual culture from which Imoinda emerges.
On the premise that the internet is a field of endless expression for a virtual global community which is ironically a world accessed by those with the economic and technological means, we explore the following questions as relevant to Imoinda:
- what happens when this libretto goes beyond the text, when placed in a virtual environment?
- what kind of dialogic relation evolves between text and cyber space?
- what are the power dynamics of this?
Our one day workshop will be held on Saturday 7 November 2009 from 10.00am until 4.00pm
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