Migration and/as Rupture

July 11, 2022 from 13:00 to 14:15

Room Number: TRS-1075

Join Meeting: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/98424717133?pwd=Y2p0Zk54dXNLWWlaS1NsTm1USGZsZz09

Chair: Shazia Rahman (U Dayton)

Speakers:

Camille Isaacs (OCAD U), “Esi Edugyan’s Subjunctive Tense: Disrupting the Past to Consider What Could Have Been”

Ankita Kaushik (Delhi), “Oral Narratives and Memory: Negotiating Identity and Sense of Belongingness in Metropolitan Delhi”

Alfrena Jamie Pierre (U West Indies, Trinidad), “Paths to Healing: The Outworking of New World Identities in George Lamming’s The Emigrants”     

Paper Summaries:

Camille Isaacs (OCAD U), “Esi Edugyan’s Subjunctive Tense: Disrupting the Past to Consider What Could Have Been”

This paper will explore the use of the subjunctive in Edugyan’s fiction, and how she disrupts the past in order to not just alter our perceptions of the present, but also as an act of protest.

Ankita Kaushik (Delhi), “Oral Narratives and Memory: Negotiating Identity and Sense of Belongingness in Metropolitan Delhi”

This paper aims to look at how the oral testimonies of people settled near the river Yamuna and visual photographs evoke memories which become sites of bringing out multiple perspectives or stories/narratives about the role of the Yamuna in the everyday life of the migrants in Delhi.

Alfrena Jamie Pierre (U West Indies, Trinidad), “Paths to Healing: The Outworking of New World Identities in George Lamming’s The Emigrants”  

This paper examines the psychological fracture of African Caribbean descended peoples which has resulted from a history of slavery. The examination is undertaken through the analysis of the character Dickson in Lamming’s novel The Emigrants and argues that the fracture of African Caribbean peoples is deep-seated, but that there are always paths to healing for these hurts.