Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Seraphima Kennedy (Goldsmiths)
'"The loss of a self that you did not have to lose": Reconfigured Identities in a Multiplicity of Parents'
Seraphima Kennedy will present a short paper on the problematics of identity and fragmentation, followed by extracts from her creative work in progress, 'Selfies With Stalin'. 'Selfies With Stalin' is a work of creative non-fiction which examines the unifying power of the 'fragmented' narrative. It explores the nature of the family, perceptions of ethnicity, legacy, lineage, belonging and fragmentation. It critically examines the act of writing from 'real life' and asks the question: can the act of writing autobiography unify a fragmented past?
David Nash
'Dépaysement – poems of (and in) exile, place and placelessness'
Dépaysé (lit. 'de-countrified') is a French term used to describe a feeling of disorientation, lost-ness, or more neutrally the state of having simply changed location. Much of David Nash's poetry addresses this sense of alienation, from other territories and cultures as well as his own, if, that is, one can claim a culture at all. Perhaps inevitably, this also touches on the question of one's place in literary/poetic traditions, and the constant (even necessary) dépaysement of the poet.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2012 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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