Scholar Laura Chrisman of York University will speak on W.E.B. Du Bois in Transnational Perspective: The Loud Silencing of Black South Africa, on Thursday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in KJ Auditorium.
Chrisman is an internationally renowned scholar of postcolonial literature and culture. She has authored two books, Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner and Plaatje (Oxford, 2000) and Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism (Manchester, 2003). In addition, she is the editor or co-editor of five volumes of essays relating to postcolonialism, including Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Columbia, 1994).
The lecture is free and open to the public. Talk and visit sponsored by The Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of Faculty, the Globalization Lecture series, the Kirkland Endowment, and the departments of Africana Studies and English.
