Grad Student Prize Panel 2

July 11, 2022 from 14:30 to 15:45

Room Number: TRS 1-073

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Chair: Henghameh Saroukhani (Saint Mary’s U)

Speakers:

Shirin Almousa (York U), “Reading the notion of the commons in Parable of the Sower and Orleans through an intersectional lens”

Lilika Kukiela (U Toronto), “Encountering Empires: Precarious Healings in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Eeva Langeveld and Rita Maricocchi (U Munster), “Narrating Entanglements of British Colonialism and German National Socialism: Barbara Yelin’s Irmina as a Disruptive History”

Paper Summaries:

Shirin Almousa (York U), “Reading the notion of the commons in Parable of the Sower and Orleans through an intersectional lens”

This paper examines the representations of the commons in two climate change novels, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and Orleans by Sherri Smith. Both novels offer new perspectives in tackling the topic of commons through intersectional approach and its entanglement with other forms of marginality.

Lilika Kukiela (U Toronto), “Encountering Empires: Precarious Healings in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

This paper examines the possibilities and precarities of healing from empire(s) through cross-racial and transnational relations. It specifically looks at Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as a novel that sets up common sites of imperial violence for Japanese and Laguna Pueblo people during World War II.

Eeva Langeveld and Rita Maricocchi (U Munster), “Narrating Entanglements of British Colonialism and German National Socialism: Barbara Yelin’s Irmina as a Disruptive History”

This paper concerns representations of disruptive transnational histories in 1930s Europe as narrated in the comic Irmina (2014) by Barbara Yelin. We investigate to what extent British imperial history and German Nazi history are represented as an interlinked common memory space through the book’s narration of experiences of migration and discrimination