The CUNY Graduate Center
Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010
A Graduate Student Colloquium
February 26th at 2 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409
Laurie Rhonda Lambert
New York University
Speaking in Tongues: Creole in Caribbean History and Writing
The history of Caribbean writers writing about Creole is both long and complicated. This paper examines the way in which characterizations of Creole languages by Caribbean writers varies in accordance with the cultural and political climate each writer works from. From post-emancipation to decolonization, and from the Black Power Movement to the rise of the Caribbean right, one can read the history of the region by looking at changes in the mobilization of discourses on Creole across the years.
Kate Moss
The CUNY Graduate Center
"A sample of Pakistan", "a sample of Glasgow": language and identity in Suhayl Saadi's fiction
This paper considers how the musical term “sampling” offers us a way of understanding the complex postcolonial identities of the protagonists of Suhayl Saadi’s novel Psychoraag and his short story “Ninety-nine Kiss-o-grams.” I will focus special attention on how these identities are conveyed using multiple languages (including Urban Scots, Urdu, Punjabi, Farsi, and Scottish Gaelic, as well as English) which are themselves “sampled” in the author’s fiction.
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