Posts Tagged: gender
PSA Newsletter #33 (October 2025)
The PSA Newsletter #33, “The Decolonial Caribbean”, challenges colonial mindsets, past and ongoing, as well as bringing to the fore Caribbean indigenous and marginalized groups’ ways of being. As always, we hope to foster informed, wide-ranging, and respectful debates on the topic on focus, and more in general in the field of postcolonial studies, by sharing original contribution, book reviews, and conference reports by colleagues from across the world.
The Newsletter opens with one original contribution by Clément Laurelli, who discussesthe essay ...
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PSA Newsletter #32 (April 2025)
The PSA Newsletter #32 explores and reflects on the ways in which postcolonial and indigenous authors “reinvent the enemy’s language” by appropriating Western literary traditions – whether in format or in content – in order to challenge mainstream Western perspectives, expose colonial legacies, and bring to the fore their ontologies and cultural practices.
The newsletter opens with five original contributions. Caitlin H. Cronin explores the ways in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie challenges traditionally Western formats such as the bildungsroman and the language of ...
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PSA Newsletter #31 (October 2024)
The PSA Newsletter #31 focuses on the theme “Exploring/ Expanding/ Challenging the Postcolonial Canon”, which will invite readers to ask crucial questions about both the limits of the label “postcolonial” and the criteria that determine a literary work as part of the “canon” of postcolonial literature. Following a letter to the Association’s members with updates from the PSA’s Executive Committee, the issue continues with eight original contributions. Aminat Emma Badmus opens the newsletter with an exploration of Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: ...
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Call for Chapters for Edited Book: Genetic Histories and Liberties
Genetic Histories and Liberties: Eugenics, Genetic Ancestries and Genetic Technologies in Literary and Visual Cultures
Gender and the Body Series, Edinburgh University Press
‘Eugenics, at its root, divides people into positive and negative groups,’ Kevin Begos
“Weak parents should not procreate. Because their children would inherit their inferior qualities, they would have no strength to lead a meaningful life, or in any way contribute to the state.” Plato, The Republic
"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair ...
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CFP: Arab Literature in English: Re-writing Gender, Race, Politics and Culture. May 29, 2020
Coventry University
Keynote Speakers
Dr Atef Alshaer (University of Westminster)Dr Roxanne Douglas (University of Warwick)
The conference will bring academics and researchers together to discuss the current topics, trends, and themes in the field of Arab literature written in the English Language. The scope of the conference encompasses all forms of literary production such as poetry, fiction, memoirs and autobiographies. We encourage participants to present papers about literary works produced in English by Arab authors or authors of Arab origin. The conference has a special ...
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Manchester Postcolonial Reading Group: Autumn 2015
Reading group diary, autumn 2015
Theme: Gender
1) Tuesday, 22 September, 12.00-13.00, Seminar Room 2, Graduate School (Ellen Wilkinson)
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest(Routledge, 1995): Chapter 6 (pp. 232-257) & Chapter 10 (pp. 352-389)
2) Tuesday, 20 October, 12.00-13.00, Seminar Room 2, Graduate School (Ellen Wilkinson)
Christine Delphy, Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror, trans. by David Broder (Verso, 2015)
3) Tuesday, 17 November, 12.00-13.00, Seminar Room 2, Graduate School (Ellen Wilkinson)
Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History (Verso, ...
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