Panel at FAAPI 2010
Posted by Mariel Amez on September 19, 2010
The panel PERSPECTIVES ON POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE will be presented at 2.00 pm on Thursday 23rd at Room 5 Facultad de Lenguas. (See full Conference schedule and this other post for other AROOO presentations)
This panel brings together the following papers:
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: a postmodern novel in verse (Cecilia R. ACQUARONE)
The purpose of this paper is to present a critical view of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel the Emperor’s Babe as a rare example of the writing of a novel in verse that displays all the issues of postmodernism in a highly aesthetic mode. The novel is original, not only in the choice of verse as a form but also in the skilful juxtaposition of multicultural, post-imperial 21st century Britain and third century Londinium. The novelist is successful in making verse an appropriate medium to deal with issues of current validity while simultaneously making the ancient past vividly and pleasantly alive to contemporary eyes.
Unaccustomed Earth: striking roots in new lands (María José BUTELER)
Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the Indian immigrants in America and about the lives of first generation Bengalis and their alienated children. The purpose of this paper is to explore how Lahiri in Unaccustomed Earth (2008) celebrates the interculturality which results from the immigrant experience and how she sees it as leading to cultural enrichment. This first generation of Indian-Americans produces novel cultural forms and practices through the merging of two separate cultures.
Anita Desai’s The Village By The Sea: Trapped between Two Discourses or Inhabiting a Third Place? (Florencia V. PERDUCA)
Postcolonial theory seems to explore the condition of formerly colonised subjects as inhabiting a crystallised space in which beings are trapped between two contending discourses (their culture’s and the other culture’s) and whose own voice is therefore silenced. Postcolonial literature, however, appears to deconstruct this inescapable condition by means of conjuring up scenarios which locate subjects in the in-betwenness of a “third place” which allows for self and cultural identity to be voiced out. This is particularly seen in the novel The Village by the Sea by Indian writer Anita Desai.
We are all extremely proud to have these talented colleagues share their expertise in the Conference.
Cecilia Acquarone: Profesora en Inglés. Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas. Professor of Literature in English at IES Olga Cossettini. Professor of Contemporary Literature in English and Introduction to Literary Analysis at UCEL. Head of English Department at Colegio Español de Rosario.
María José Buteler: Licenciada, Translator and Teacher of English, Facultad de Lenguas (UNC). Prof. Adjunta DSE in “Introduction to Literary Studies”, “Theory and Analysis of Literary Discourse” and “American Literature” at Facultad de Lenguas, National University of Cordoba.
Florencia Perduca: Literary Translator and English Teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernandez” (Buenos Aires), she holds an MA in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham (UK). She teaches Introduction to Literary Studies, Literature in Englishes and Contemporary Literature at Lenguas Vivas (Buenos Aires) and Postcolonial Studies at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa (Universidad Nacional del Litoral). She is the director of the IES en Lenguas Vivas Research Group on “Intercultural Awareness through Literatures in Englishes” and is the author and materials designer of magazines and resource packs on literatures in Englishes.
