The Cultural Cold War & the Poetics of Postcolonial Modernism(s) in India

Date: 

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 6:00pm

Location: 

Zoom Meeting

abstract paintingMODERNISM

SPEAKER: Laetitia Zecchini, CNRS, Paris

Laetitia Zecchini is a tenured research fellow at the CNRS (Paris) and currently visiting scholar at Boston University. Her research focuses on contemporary Indian poetry, on postcolonial modernisms and on the politics of literature. She is the author of Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India, Moving Lines (Bloomsbury, 2014) and has recently co-edited "The Worlds of Bombay Poetry" (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2017) and "The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia (Journal of World Literature, 2019). She is co-investigator of the AHRC-funded project writers and free expression, and is at work on a monograph around issues of literary activism and struggles for cultural/literary freedoms in postcolonial India.

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