CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michelle M. Wright, 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'
| Dates: | 19 March 2018 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity
Michelle M. Wright (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University), will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'
In this talk, I will argue that time, or spacetime, can play an almost disproportionate role in our constructions of Blackness across the diaspora. More specifically, I will start with the problem of over-representation: why, despite all evidence to the contrary, most work on the Black and African diasporas is suited to a specifically African American idiom but little else. By putting discourses on time by theoretical particle physicists and science journalists into conversation with contemporary creative and non-fiction texts from the Black and African diasporas, I will argue that we can meet the seemingly impossible challenge of representing a much broader, diverse (and therefore accurate) range of Black identities and collectives in our work on diaspora, diasporic politics, and diasporic identities.
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