{"id":28309,"global_id":"www.sal.org.uk?id=28309","global_id_lineage":["www.sal.org.uk?id=28309"],"author":"20","status":"publish","date":"2022-04-22 11:21:03","date_utc":"2022-04-22 10:21:03","modified":"2022-10-28 10:17:19","modified_utc":"2022-10-28 09:17:19","url":"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/event\/writing-back-and-writing-forward-caribbean-literature-in-english\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/28309","title":"Caribbean Literature in English \u2013 Writing Back and Writing Forward","description":"<h2><strong>Conference<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Caribbean Literature in English \u2013 Writing Back and Writing Forward<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booking has now closed. You can join us online on our YouTube Channel here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caribbean Literature in English \u2013 Writing Back and Writing Forward\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgBVAbjYhmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Organised by Professor John Hines and Dr Linda Grant<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of this conference will be on \u2018writing back\u2019, or how Caribbean literature engages with ideas of European literary canonicity: participating in, contesting, overturning and resisting. The programme ranges broadly to include both established and more innovative and contemporary texts, and explores issues of postcolonialism, hybridity, reception, language and orality, gender, nationhood and identity. The closing panel discussion will consider \u2018writing forward\u2019 and the futures of literature from, and set in, the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing closely on books written in English from or about the Caribbean, at this event we will be continuing a much-needed contemporary dialogue between literature, politics, people and place. As well as exploring how past Caribbean writers have negotiated their position within \u2018English\u2019 literature, we will also be looking at how contemporary Caribbean writing has a vibrant place in what is being published and read today and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Marlon James: Booker Prize 2015 with <em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em>; Monique Roffey: Costa Book of the Year Award 2020 with <em>The Mermaid of Black Conch<\/em> \u2013 Caribbean writing is no longer a marginal interest but is a vibrant and relatively youthful contributor to the British and US literary scene. Join us at this event to hear directly from a panel of experts and writers about how Caribbean literature shakes up the old conventions, and how it\u2019s forging a new community of inclusive readers and writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>09.15: <\/strong><strong>Registration opens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.00: Welcome and Introduction \u2013 with The Acting High Commissioner of Jamaica, Mrs. Patrice Laird-Grant &amp; Professor Matthew Smith, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.05: <\/strong><em>Caribbean literature and its engagement with canonicity <\/em>\u2013 <strong>Dr Isis Semaj-Hall, University of the West Indies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10.45: <\/strong><em>Representations of the Caribbean in Jane Austen<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Professor John Hines, University of Cardiff, and Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11.30: Break \u2013 with tea and coffee provided by SAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12.00: <\/strong><em>Derek Walcott\u2019s Omeros and the rewriting of classical epic\u00a0<\/em><strong>\u2013 Dr Linda Grant, Society of Antiquaries\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12.45: Lunch break<\/strong> (Lunch provided)<\/p>\n<p><strong>14.00:<\/strong><em>Women and literature of the Caribbean: Creativity and Community<\/em><strong><em> \u2013 <\/em>Jherane Patmore, Rebel Women Lit, Jamaica<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14.45: <em>The oral tradition and \u2018talking back\u2019 to a British Metropole \u2013<\/em>Dr Cassander Smith, University of Alabama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>15.30:<\/strong> <strong>Break<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>16.15: <\/strong><strong> Panel discussion: Writing forward and the futures of writing from, and set in, the Caribbean <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Including<strong> Dr Monique Roffey<\/strong><em>, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, <\/em>Winner of the Costa Book of the Year award 2020, shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020, and longlisted for the 2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17.00: Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17.15: Keynote speaker: Malika Booker<\/strong>, prize-winning poet and theatre-maker. She was the inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2010, Chair of the Forward Prize in 2016 and Chair of Judges of the international Manchester Poetry Prize in 2019. She has been awarded a prestigious Society of Authors Cholmondley Award for her contribution to poetry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18.00: Drinks Reception including Rum Punch with compliments of the Jamaican High Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet our speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30490 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Isis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Isis Semaj-Hall<\/strong>\u00a0specializes in Caribbean literatures in English and regional nation languages, as well as African\u00a0diasporic popular culture. Semaj-Hall&#8217;s research focuses on constructions of the self, decolonizing gender, Jamaican music, and the digital and has been published in such scholarly journals as Caribbean Quarterly, Jamaica Journal, Cultural Dynamics, and sx salon. She is currently working on two projects: a monograph, titled On the B-Side: Dub, Disruptions, and the Decolonial in Contemporary Caribbean Texts, that analyzes contemporary Caribbean literature through the music production techniques that were created and popularized by dub, and an edited collection of oral histories on the silences in Jamaican music. She podcasts For Posterity, maintains a blog called write pon di riddim, and is a co-founding editor of PREE: Caribbean Writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30491 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"147\" \/>John Hines <\/strong>is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University and a specialist on relations between Britain and Scandinavia before and during the Viking period. John also has broader interests in literature including Jane Austen and the prequels, sequels and translations of her novels on TV and in film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30493 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Linda-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Linda Grant<\/strong> has research interests in poetry, classical reception and translation in the broadest sense. She has written on how to think methodologically about textual receptions and literary dialogues across time and geographies, on gender and genre (including epic), and the textual representation of bodies and voices. She is currently working on a book on Shakespeare\u2019s Bodies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30494 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Jherane-e1660038664773.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jherane Patmore<\/strong> is the owner and founder of Rebel Women Lit. She started this literary community in 2018 as a book club and has since grown it into a bookstore, community library, podcast and it is home to the Spoken &amp; Seen Festival &amp; Caribbean Readers\u2019 Award.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30495 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Cassie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Cassie.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Cassie-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/>Cassander Smith<\/strong> teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early African American, American, and Caribbean literature. Both her teaching and research focus on representations of black Africans in early Atlantic literature, emphasizing the racial\/cultural ideologies that helped shape English encounters with the early Americas and helped shape the literature produced about those encounters. Her current works in progress include a monograph, tentatively titled <em>Race, Class<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Emancipation and a Politics of Respectability in Early Atlantic Literature<\/em>, which examines the ways in which issues of race and class merge in the emancipation rhetoric of an early modern black Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30496 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Monique-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><strong>onique Roffey\u2019s <\/strong>research has been mostly based in the Caribbean. She is interested in outsiders, otherness and exile. Her novels have examined whiteness and the white colonial in the post independence era (<em>The White Woman on the Green Bicycle<\/em>), the changing environment in the Caribbean (<em>Archipelago<\/em>), and an historic coup d\u2019etat in Trinidad (<em>House of Ashes<\/em>). <em>The Mermaid of Black Conch<\/em> is a feminist rewriting of an old Caribbean myth; it examines female jealousy and interracial love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30497 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Malika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"144\" \/>Malika Booker, our Keynote Speaker,<\/strong> has research interests in Black British Contemporary Poetry, Women Contemporary poets, Caribbean and African American Contemporary Poetry,\u00a0\u00a0Autobiographical and Confessional Poetry, Poetry of Witness, Poetry and Performance, and Teaching Creative Writing in Schools.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30498 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sal.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Matthew-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And chairing the day, <strong>Matthew Smith<\/strong>, whose research is pan-Caribbean in scope with special interest in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of Haiti and Jamaica. Among his current research projects is a study of the representations and legacies of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica in 1865, and a social history of Jamaican popular music since the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>This event will be both in person at Burlington House and online. Please select the appropriate ticket below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Attendance at Burlington House:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Open to anyone to join, Fellows, Affiliates and General Public.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registration is essential.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Places in person will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/li>\n<li>The event will begin at 09.15 BST. 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