Suad Amiry and Palestinian Life Writing

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Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert, Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London

The paper will focus on Suad Amiry's Sharon and my Mother-in-Law (2005), focusing primarily on the author's articulation of the genre of life-writing in the Palestinian context from a specifically gendered perspective. It will also address a number of other, inter-linked issues: the relationship of life-writing to the politics of nationalism; the tensions between the focus on community and individual experience; the role of humour as a mode of resistance and endurance; the relationship between Palestinian life-writing and the normative conventions and values of western life-writing.

Biography:

Bart Moore-Gilbert is Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Kipling and "Orientalism" (1987), Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (1997), Hanif Kureishi (2001) and Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politic and Self-Representation (2009). He has also edited Writing India: British Representations of India 1757-1990 (1996) and numerous articles and chapters in books on Kipling, colonial and postcolonial literature and theory.

Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network hosted by the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies

Contact email: rs94@soas.ac.uk