‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’
How Britain’s nineteenth century functioned as a field of intelligibility into the problem of decolonization, particularly for Eric Williams, V.S. Naipaul, and C.L.R. James.
Date:
7 February 2024, 17:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue:
Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details:
The C. Day Lewis Room
Speaker:
Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Organising department:
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Katy Terry,
Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu