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Barnard
Forum on Migration Presents Talk on Transnational Fiction,
Feb. 25
 New
York, NY, February 4, 2003-- As part of The Barnard Forum
on Migration, Professor Stephen Clingman of the University
of Massachusetts will discuss "travelling literature,"
or "transnational fiction," as seen through the
works of Joseph Conrad and other writers on February 25.
Clingman will illustrate how writers have long been shifting
countries and locations and making it a part of their literature,
from Joseph Conrad to Salman Rushdie, W.G. Sebald, and Nadine
Gordimer. These authors used their writing to explore "a
genre that crosses boundaries, reworks concepts of space,
identity and time, and displaces the binaries of colonial
and postcolonial, modern and postmodern," Clingman writes.
Clingman is Professor of English and Chair of the English
Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He
specializes in South African literature, transnational fiction,
colonial and post-colonial fiction, 20th century fiction and
the political novel. He is the author of Bram Fischer:
Afrikaner Revolutionary, the story of an Afrikaner anti-apartheid
leader in South Africa. A native South African, Clingman received
the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, the premier non-fiction
award in South Africa, for this work.
The Barnard Forum on Migration sponsors special events featuring
lectures, readings, and films which explore issues connected
to the movement of people from one part of the world to another.
Each year, the Forum hosts distinguished writers and academics
who address a broad range of issues which relate to questions
of migration and social order. The Barnard Forum on Migration
is supported by a bequest establishing the Weiss International
Fellowship Fund to bring distinguished scholars in literature
and the arts to Barnard. The Forum is organized by Caryl Philips,
the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information,
please contact The Barnard Forum on Migration at 212-854-3577
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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