We are delighted to invite you to a public lecture at听Magdalene College, The Parlour, First Court,听Friday听28 April 17:30-18:45
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"White Tongue: The Colonized Woman and Language"
A public lecture 听by Prof Maya Boutaghou, University of Virginia
Followed by drinks, All welcome!
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Abstract:听鈥淲hite Tongue: The Colonized Woman and Language鈥�听considers colonialism a disease inducing symptomatic multilingualism and cultural pluralism in former colonized regions: India, Egypt, Algeria, and Mauritius. This talk explores multilingual writings in two periods (end of nineteenth century and second half of twentieth century), and four different colonial contexts while addressing a long-term history of connections between India and Mauritius, as well as between Egypt and Algeria. The writers whose texts I present and analyse are Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from India, Mayy Ziyadah (1886-1941) from Egypt, Assia Djebar (1935-2015) from Algeria, and Ananda Devi (1957-) from Mauritius. The question here is not about tracing back the history of multilingual writing, but about the constitution of a multilingual, colonial, and postcolonial self in 19th century India and Egypt, and 20th century Algeria and Mauritius, mainly perceived through the paradigmatic literary production by the women writers of these regions.
Bio:听Maya Boutaghou听is Associate Professor of French and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of听Occidentalismes, Romans historiques postcoloniaux et identit茅s nationales au XIXe si猫cle听(2016), and听Ernest Renan, Qu鈥檈st-ce qu鈥檜ne nation? Gen猫se et post茅rit茅, de l鈥橢mpire 脿 la nation听(2020). She guest-edited, among others, 听鈥淭he Algerian War of Independence and its Legacy in Algeria, France and Beyond,鈥澨齃鈥橢sprit cr茅ateur听(2014), edited Repr茅sentations de la guerre d鈥檌nd茅pendance alg茅rienne (2019), and co-edited issues of听SITES: 鈥淢apping Francophone Postcolonial Theories鈥� (2018). She is also the author of a novel,听Voyage d鈥橝lger听(Alger: Aframed, 2019). With Anne Donadey, she is currently preparing the听Dictionnaire Assia Djebar; and the guest-editor of a special issue for听Expressions Maghrebines听on New Historiographies of Algeria.听
This lecture is sponsored by Trinity and Magdalene Colleges.
