Author Nicole Aljoe to Speak at USU on Slavery
Author Nicole Aljoe will present a lecture, “Slavery and the Anglophone Caribbean Literary Imagination,” Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library Auditorium at Utah State University. The event is free and all are invited.
Aljoe is an assistant professor of English at the University of Utah and contributor to the edited volume “2006 Zombie Testimony: Creole Religious Discourse in West Indian Slave Narratives.”
“Although recent research by historians and sociologists has highlighted the global nature and effects of plantation slavery, discussions of the literary responses to slavery tend to focus on the United States,” Aljoe said.
Aljoe’s speech will address the relationships between several slave narratives from the British West Indian colonies and contemporary West Indian, or Anglophone Caribbean, literature.
For more information, contact Shane Graham at sgraham@english.usu.edu.
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