The Fletcher Lecture by Laura Chrisman: African Atlantics and Imperial Culture
Channel: Department of English, Arizona State University
Date: 2018-10-30

The Fletcher Lecture by Laura Chrisman: African Atlantics and Imperial Culture: Critical Directions Past, Present and Future.

Laura Chrisman, the Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair in the Department of English at the University of Washington delivered the 2018-2019 Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture at Arizona State University.

Laura Chrisman analyzes the cultures of imperialism and of anti-colonialist resistance, and has a particular interest in South Africa. She is also very interested in black Atlantic and black diaspora studies. She is the author of Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism (2003) and Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner and Plaatje (2000), as well as several edited collections and an annotated bibliography. Her current interdisciplinary book project is provisionally titled Nationalism, Modernity and Transnationalism in African Intellectuals. The book focuses on black South African nationalists, and their links with African-American intellectuals of the early 20th century.

This public event was co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research.

ASU Tempe campus
October 23rd, 2018