This event will be postponed to a later date | Aftermath: Preti Taneja in conversation
Race and Resistance Programme event.
Aftermath is a non-fiction lament against the racist harms of the school to prison pipeline, and corresponding white saviour fantasy of education-as-redemption in the UK. The book interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief; the fictions we believe and the voices we exclude. Following the terror attack at Fishmonger’s Hall in November 2019, Taneja contends with the pain of unspeakable loss set against public tragedy, and draws on history, memory, and powerful poetic predecessors to reckon with the systemic nature of atrocity. Blurring genre and form, Aftermath is an attempt to regain trust after violence and to recapture a politics of hope through a determined dream of abolition. It won the Gordon Burn Prize 2022.
Date: 24 November 2022, 17:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organiser: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: chantelle.lewis@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: This is free event, all welcome
Audience: Public
Editor: Krisztina Lugosi