American Literature Research Seminar: Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
In a world-context shaped by urgency and insurgency, I want to consider aesthetic temporality and specificity of sentences. What is the invocation of “now” that lives in a poetic line or a prose phrase, and is it distinct from the “now” of insurgency? How does the act—the phenomenon—of reading explicate what we might know of criticism? In these queries, I want to explore some of the conditions of black literary criticism given the state of a disastrous world.
Date: 25 May 2023, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large seminar room
Speaker: Prof. Kevin Quashie (Brown)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Part of: American Literature Research Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu