Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
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Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction
Dystopian Motherhood: May 2, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Reading contemporary fiction returns with Dystopian Motherhood, introduced by Fran Bigman2 May 2012, Keynes LibraryIn a 2007 article, Rachel Bowlby writes about how things have changed since the late 1970s or early 1980s, when “feminism was a strong force politically,” a 1960s-derived feminism in which “The emphasis was on the right for women not to have children – on pregnancy and motherhood as burdens, if not as the key to all female oppression… Motherhood, at this time, was really not much…See More
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'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin at Room 112
March 7, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Harriet Cooper leads a session which takes a closer look at Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize winning novel... Harriet's research explores the rise of the notion of the ‘normal child’ in Anglo-American culture and its impact on cultural constructions of the physically impaired child. Be there or be smited by our evil eye... Readings are...We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver (Serpent's Tail, 2011)pp. 19-24…See More
Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction
Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology
Come join us on Wednesday March 7th from 6-7.30pm (room 112) when Harriet Cooper leads a session 'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin! Readings to follow.See More
Bianca Leggett posted an event
'Kevin smites me with the evil eye': Attachment, the Gaze and the Location of Pathology in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin at Room 112
March 7, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Harriet Cooper leads a session which takes a closer look at Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize winning novel... Harriet's research explores the rise of the notion of the ‘normal child’ in Anglo-American culture and its impact on cultural constructions of the physically impaired child. Be there or be smited by our evil eye... Readings are...We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver (Serpent's Tail, 2011)pp. 19-24…See More
David Vichnar joined Bianca Leggett's group
Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction
What next?
Our next session is as blank as a lovely crisp piece of A4. Please doodle on it for us.See More
Bianca Leggett updated an event
Twenty-First Century British Fiction – A Symposium at 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College
May 12, 2012 all day
Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century. Post-2000 writing has proved itself as arguably wide-ranging and innovative as its predecessors. The post-millennial decade witnessed a new literary generation emerge and establish itself with familiar and less familiar names such as Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, Steven Hall, Philip Hensher, Tom McCarthy, Patrick Neate and Zadie Smith. …See More
Bianca Leggett posted an event
Twenty-First Century British Fiction – A Symposium at 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck College
May 12, 2012 all day
Twenty-First Century British Fiction seeks to consider and promote current perspectives on the fiction of British writers in the twenty-first century. Post-2000 writing has proved itself as arguably wide-ranging and innovative as its predecessors. The post-millennial decade witnessed a new literary generation emerge and establish itself with familiar and less familiar names such as Monica Ali, Nicola Barker, Steven Hall, Philip Hensher, Tom McCarthy, Patrick Neate and Zadie Smith. …See More
Magnus Bremmer joined Bianca Leggett's group
Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
Bianca Leggett added a discussion to the group Reading Contemporary Fiction
Borders and belonging: writing the global imaginary
How can the novel capture a globalised world in which communities are often configured along transnational lines, in which the field of play can encompass the entire world? What is its role in interrogating emergent forms of global belonging?Following an introduction from Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck College), we will focus on Hari Kunzru's Transmission. Join us for a discussion of the concept of the global imaginary and of how the novel has gone about imagining it.5.30-7pm, Room 114 (Keynes…See More
Bianca Leggett posted an event
Borders and belonging: writing the global imaginary at Room 114 (Keynes Library)
December 1, 2011 from 5:30pm to 7pm
How can the novel capture a globalised world in which communities are often configured along transnational lines, in which the field of play can encompass the entire world? What is its role in interrogating emergent forms of global belonging?Following an introduction from Bianca Leggett (Birkbeck College), we will focus on Hari Kunzru's Transmission. Join us for a discussion of the concept of the global imaginary and of how the novel has gone about imagining it. Hari Kunzru,…See More
Christopher Daley joined Bianca Leggett's group
Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
Joseph Brooker joined Bianca Leggett's group
Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
Fran Bigman joined Bianca Leggett's group
Reading Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the format and the Pringle supply you know and love. Please join us!See More
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- contemporary literature, travel writing, cosmopolitanism, national identity, Englishness
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Good Day,
How is everything with you, I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and
deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but
I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to
me on:( [email protected]) ) for the full details.
Have a nice day
Thanks God bless.
Mrs Stella.
Hi Bianca,
Thanks for your email, I would love to review the book you mention for Dandelion, it looks excellent. Let me know whether you manage to get a copy from the publishers...
Harriet
Yes, tea was lovely, wasn't it?
Here's the link to the Liberal Arts thing we we're talking about:
http://www.libartslondon.co.uk/
See you soon, I hope.
Eleanor x
Hi Bianca
It was really good to meet you on Saturday. I'd love to hear more about your research, which sounds so interesting (especially the teeth!), and about your and Alan's symposium.
Catch up soon, I hope.
Eleanor
Enjoyed the Patrick Neate session the other week. Afterwards I remembered a v entertaining Donald Barthelme story, "The King of Jazz" (it's in the Penguin "Sixty Stories") that sends up the jazz ethos/language.
I'd love to hear more about your thesis, and I was going to offer to lend you a copy of a book I published a few years ago - Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination. It might have one or two references that might be useful. Let me know when you're going to be in Bloomsbury next week and maybe we can meet for a coffee.
NB my e-mail is [email protected]
mobile - 07958 623677
Best
Adam