{"id":303,"date":"2010-02-16T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=303"},"modified":"2011-05-24T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T19:36:19","slug":"quiet-revolutions-postcolonial-womens-writings-and-structures-of-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/quiet-revolutions-postcolonial-womens-writings-and-structures-of-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Revolutions: Postcolonial Women&#8217;s Writings and Structures of Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alison-donnell1.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Donnell\" title=\"alison-donnell\" width=\"590\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alison-donnell1.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alison-donnell1-300x208.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This talk offers a new reading of postcolonial women&#8217;s writings. The conventional model since the 1980s has been to emphasize issues of silence and invisibility, the desire for voice and narrative space, and self-representation as a form of empowerment and transformation. What is often eclipsed as a result is a valuable political ethic based on coalition and solidarity with oppressed and marginalized figures. By working across an expansive literary archive, stretching from Mary Prince&#8217;s slave narrative to more recent works by Miriama B&acirc;, Bapsi Sidhwa, Edwidge Danticat and Shani Mootoo, Professor Donnell will identify an alternative framework for reading postcolonial women&#8217;s writing, presenting a new model of feminist criticism rooted in solidarity and coalitional ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Donnell is reader in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of <i>Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary and Critical History<\/i> and has been a Joint Editor of <i>Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies<\/i> since its founding in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This talk offers a new reading of postcolonial women&#8217;s writings. The conventional model since the 1980s has been to emphasize issues of silence and invisibility, the desire for voice and narrative space, and self-representation as a form of empowerment and transformation. What is often eclipsed as a result is a valuable political ethic based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":304,"template":"","tags":[100,39,11,141],"class_list":["post-303","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-transnational"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}