Alternative Curricula is an open, informal discussion group exploring postcolonial and decolonial theory. All are welcome: staff, students, locals and visitors. No prior knowledge of the topic is necessary, nor is there any obligation to attend every meeting. www.some.ox.ac.uk/about/our-community/alternative-curricula

Poetry and anticolonialism: a discussion of Aimé Césaire’s poetry
Saturday 23rd October 2021, 11.30am – 1pm
Flo’s Cafe, Florence Park, Rymer’s Lane, OX4 3JZ

Core reading: * Aimé Césaire, Return to My Native Land (Penguin 1969), available through SOLO and via this link: kboo.fm/sites/default/files/AIME%20CESAIRE—NOTEBOOK%20OF%20A%20RETURN%20TO%20A%20NATIVE%20LAND.pdf

Additional reading: * Aimé Césaire, ‘Discourse on Colonialism’, available online: cult320withallison.onmason.com/files/2015/01/Aime_Cesaire_Discourse_On_Colonialism_pt_1.pdf * ‘Homage to Aimé Césaire’ Callaloo, available online: moodle.swarthmore.edu/pluginfile.php/150276/mod_resource/content/1/Aim%C3%A9%20%C3%A7%C3%A9saire.pdf