Exotics, Visitors, Immigrants and Citizens: Africa on the British Stage
Dr. Osita okagbue and The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing are delighted to announce the third event in our strand on African Diasporic Theatre and Performance. As part of the three year AHRC –funded project ‘Beyond the Linear Narrative’
Entitled “Exotics, Visitors, Immigrants and Citizens: Africa on the British Stage” the event will feature three papers by performers, writers and practitioners followed by discussion and refreshments.
The event will be held in the seminar rooms 3/4 of the Ben Pimlott Building on March 17th at 5:30pm.
Please contact b.pester@gold.ac.uk to reserve your place
Presentations will be from
Inua Ellams – 'The 15th Tale: How the centre holds' More information about Performance poet and artist Inua Ellams can be found here: www.phaze05.com
Alex OMA-PIUS African Theatre & Culture in British Schools - Alex is the artistic director of Iroko Theatre www.irokotheatre.org.uk
Reginald Ofodile - Being an African Actor on the British Stage
Dr Dipo Agboluaje – 'It's as if I'm in Nigeria: Concerns of Writing Nigeria in the UK'
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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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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