Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Oliver Coates (DPhil in History, University of Cambridge)
This paper will examine the ways in which Africans who fought in the Second World War presented their experiences in written narratives. While the literature of the Second World War has been widely examined in Europe, Australasia and North America, there have been few attempts to situate it in relation to Africa or to engage with the variety of published and archival texts available. This paper will examine the strategies of self-fashioning deployed within these texts, and ask how the representation of conflict plays a role in this. In doing so, it will relate to a growing body of literature on colonial self-fashioning and self-representation in Africa, while also attempting to problematize Second World War literature in relation to postcolonial and queer theory.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar 2014 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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