Literature Program and Dean of the College Present
The Plague of Nations
Monday, February 4, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Williams College
*Please Note: Lecture moved to Weis Cinema
Drawn from Kolb’s first book,Terror Epidemics: Islam, Insurgency, Colonialism, Disease, “The Plague of Nations” considers political consequences of naturalizing and organicizing discourses, particularly the figure of epidemic, through the “failed state” paradigm of a putatively postcolonial era. The author will discuss the case of Kashmir in Salman Rushdie’s post-9/11 terrorism novel, Shalimar the Clown, as well as the legacies of the postwar international order in both Rushdie’s novel and in the incomplete decolonization of the Indian subcontinent. *Please Note: Lecture moved to Weis Cinema
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema