Friday, November 20, 2009

Disrupting the Narrative: Gender, sexuality and fractured form in diasporic writing and performance

24 November 2009, 17:30 - 19:00
Goldsmiths, University of London


Second Seminar in strand as part of AHRC funded 3-year project:

Beyond the Linear Narrative:
Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial era

We are delighted to announce the second in this seminar strand, discussing fractured form and the exploration of gender and sexuality in writing and performance.

The seminar will be chaired by professor Helen Carr, and will focus on questions of masculinity in fractured narratives, and queering the narrative.


There will be two papers followed by refreshments and discussion.


Papers delivered by our two distinguished speakers will be:

'Fractured narratives: disrupting masculinity'
by Professor Vic Seidler, Professor of Social Theory/Sociology,
Goldsmiths, University of London

&

'Queering the narrative line: queer reading as a disruptive methodology.'
by Dr. Louise Tondeur, Novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing: Fiction,
Roehampton University



Places are limited, so please reserve by email: b.pester@gold.ac.uk
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Anthony Joseph's 'Bird Head Son' German reading Tour Nov 2009




From November 16 to 23 Anthony Joseph, one of the PhD students attached to the Pinter Centre's Fractured Narratives project will be embarking on a short reading tour of several German Universities, with a date in Austria on Nov 23. Joseph will be reading from his latest poetry collection 'Bird Head Son'.

The dates and venues are :

Nov 16 - - JENA - Rosensale, University of Jena - 20.00
Nov 17 - SIEGEN - Kultur Cafe, University of Siegen - 18.00
Nov 18 - BOCHUM - GBCF 04/514 University of Bochum - 16.00
Nov 19 - DORTMUND - Sonnendeck, University of Dortmund - 19.00
Nov 20 - MAINZ - University of Mainz - 12.00
Nov 23 - VIENNA - University of Vienna - 19.00

For more info on the book see http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714353.htm
or www.anthonyjoseph.co,uk
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About the Project

'Beyond the Linear Narrative...' is a 3 year AHRC funded research project being carried out by the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Taking Pinter’s work as a starting point for, or symbol of, the fracturing of narrative across many art-forms in twentieth and twenty-first century work, this research project asks a series of questions about the links between inter-cultural and political change and the emergence, or re-emergence, of non-linear and fractured narrative.

Focussing on literature and performance, particularly in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, it will ask why non-linear narrative has been such a feature of this period’s artistic production. If these fractured and experimental forms are a response to the breakdown of the west’s grand narratives of progress, what forms of resistance or revision do they provide?

In what ways can they be seen to emerge from the increasing interaction of different cultures in the colonial, post-colonial and post-Cold War world? How do such fractured narratives work in postcolonial and diasporic writing and performance? How can these fractured forms explore our culturally diverse society’s competing and conflicting narratives?

The project addresses the ways changing understandings of the self have contributed to the disruption of linear narrative, and in particular, how fractured narratives enable the move away from the Cartesian mind/body duality to an understanding of the embodied self, making the writing of the body such an important element in contemporary performance, fiction and life-writing.

About the Pinter Centre

The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing is an interdisciplinary research centre at Goldsmiths University involving principally the Departments of English & Comparative Literature and of Drama, with links with Media and Communications, Music, PACE and the Digital Studios.

In line with Harold Pinter’s keen awareness of the centrality of political issues, the Centre is particularly committed to looking at postcolonial and diasporic literature and performance, and the ways in which contemporary creativity is forging new forms that respond to the cultural diversity of the world in which we live. It also has a strong interest in questions of gender, and writing and performing the body.

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