Room Number: TRS 1-075
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Chair: Veronica Austen (St. Jerome’s U)
Speakers:
Safa Kouki (U Montreal), “Refugee Camps as Temporal and Geo-Traumatic Ruptures in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
Eva Ulrike Pirker (Heinrich Heine U Dusseldorf), “Bodies, Dreams, Bonds: Re-Reading Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon”
Humaira Shoaib (U Waterloo), “Constructing Indeterminant Diaspora Identities through Mystery Migrants in Wayde Compton’s “1,360ft3 (38.5m3)” and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
Paper Summaries:
Safa Kouki (U Montreal), “Refugee Camps as Temporal and Geo-Traumatic Ruptures in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
This paper studies What We All Long For’s (Dionne Brand, 2005) insurgent character “Quy” who breaches the linear structure of the novel and, accordingly, navigates the narrative and the world on a parallel plane.
Eva Ulrike Pirker (Heinrich Heine U Dusseldorf), “Bodies, Dreams, Bonds: Re-Reading Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon”
This paper proposes a ‘planetary’ approach to and re-reading of Dionne Brand’s novel At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999). It argues that Brand’s work projects transcultural relations, and that it (re)produces and (re)presents, but also calls into question, affiliative orders beyond conventional ideas of ‘the commons’.
Humaira Shoaib (U Waterloo), “Constructing Indeterminant Diaspora Identities through Mystery Migrants in Wayde Compton’s “1,360ft3 (38.5m3)” and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”
This paper studies indeterminacy created by literary authors in diaspora identity of characters by the use of mystery under Stuart Hall’s framework of diaspora identity representation.