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Enslavement, Transmission and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

Event Details

Time: October 19, 2011 from 3pm to 5pm
Location: Birkbeck
Street: Room B03, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
City/Town: London
Website or Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brakc/
Event Type: symposium
Organized By: Nathalie Wourm
Latest Activity: Oct 14, 2011

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Event Description

BRAKC LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
AND READING
FOLLOWED BY FILM SCREENING

Enslavement, Transmission and Trauma
in Contemporary Fiction

by writer Jenny Mitchell
and Chantal Quiquine (Birkbeck)

Date: 19 October 2011
Time: 3 - 5pm
Location: Room B03, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

Followed by film screening: Mandingo
(Richard Fleischer, 1975)

Start time: 6pm
Location: Room 421, Malet Street, Bloomsbury

Free entry; open to all

"Can mainstream romantic fiction be used to re-examine the legacies of transatlantic enslavement, and suggest that the ‘slave-owners’ condemned their descendents to trans-generational trauma?"

Jenny Mitchell