Wednesday, November 20, 4:30pm

Highwaymen Common Room

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

300 High Street, Middletown, CT

This talk will investigate the persistence of history and narrative on the body, exploring the ways certain female bodies are bound by gendering and racializing logics that attempt to freeze the body in a particular moment, refusing it the transformative possibilities of time and place, of aging, travel, and experience. Focusing on Igiaba Scego’s 2015 novel Adua, this talk will consider the way black women’s bodies have been made to represent Italian colonialism and at the way some black women wield the scars of that violence to rewrite those historical narratives.

This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Thomas and Catharine McMahon Fund, and the Fries Center for Global Studies