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Lecture by Ankhi Mukherjee: ‘From English Literature to Literatures in English’
On 17 February Dr Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford, Wadham College, UK) will be giving a public lecture at the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI) at Utrecht University. Her talk examines the emergence of English as a global – and englobing – vernacular with reference to Anglophone literature from South Asia, focusing attention on language rather than nation as its creative principle.
The lecture draws on the history of the transformation of English Literature to “Literatures in English,” a continental drift which, according to Gauri Viswanathan, signals a deterritorialisation of the national implications of English literature.
More information: www.postcolonialstudies.nl
Dr Ankhi Mukherjee is CFU Lecturer and Fellow in English at Wadham College Oxford University. Her areas of research include critical and cultural theory, particularly psychoanalysis; intellectual history; postcolonial studies; Victorian literature and culture; British modernism; contemporary British and South Asian Anglophone fiction. She is currently working on a book entitled What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting, Repetition, and Invention of the Canon (forthcoming, 2012), which examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. Among her other publications are Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and A Companion to Psychoanalysis and Literature (Blackwell Publishers, 2010, with Laura Marcus).
| Startdatum en tijd: |
17/2/2012 10:00 |
| Einddatum en tijd: |
17/2/2012 12:30 |
| Locatie: |
Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal room 0.05, Utrecht |