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Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group Seminar April 22nd, 2010, 18:15, CES Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Coimbra Organisation: Project "New Poetics of Resistance: the 21st Century in Portugal" Free entrance
The aim is to identify elements of literary narratives of diaspora authors of the late nineteenth century, published in newspapers in Argentina, and discuss them in counterpoint with narratives of the last decades of the 20th century returning to a past "almost" erased from collective or individual memory to recreate survival strategies which reveal the tensions that produce new states of consciousness (sounds of silence). Laura P.Z. Izarra is Associate Professor in English Language Literatures at the Department of Modern Humanities at the School of Philosophy, Humanities and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo. Author of Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths: The Process of a ‘New’ Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (1999), and Narrativas de las diásporas: identidades en formación. Los irlandeses bajo la Cruz del Sur which will be published in Buenos Aires by Corregidor in 2010. Editor of A Literatura da Virada do Século: Fim das Utopias? (2001), Literaturas Estrangeiras e o Brasil: Diálogos (2004) and of the Series Da Irlanda para o Brasil (2009). Co-editor of Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (2003), Irish Studies in Brazil (2005), A New Ireland in Brazil (2008) and ABEI Journal – The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies since 1999. Has published several articles on literatures of diasporas and essays on contemporary writers John Banville, Paul Durcan, Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney, Caryl Philips, Juan José Delaney, among others. |