果冻传媒

In her lecture, Sonya takes up three first-hand accounts of slavery and indentured servitude from the Caribbean, the first being Biograf铆a de un cimarr贸n (1966; Biography of a Runaway Slave, 1994), the life-story of a 106-year-old former slave from Cuba, Esteban Montejo, as narrated to and compiled by the ethnologist Miguel Barnet. The second text is Damra Phag Bahar (1916; I Even Regret the Night: Holi Songs of Demerara, 2019), by Lalbihari Sharma, and lastly Munshi Rahman Khan's Jeevan Prakash: Autobiography of an Indian Indentured Labourer: Munshi Rahman Khan (1874-1972) (2005). Sonya will read these slave and indenture accounts as testimonios and as assemblages of 'archipelagic memory' drawing from the work of Caribbean intellectuals who mobilised the archipelago as a decolonial analytical framework.

Sonya is a retired Professor from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, whose research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her visit is being jointly supported by the Humanities Research Centre at the 果冻传媒 and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC).

This will be an in-person event and delivered in English. All are welcome, and there will be light refreshments served afterwards. Please don't hesitate to write to me (Malvika.Nair@warwick.ac.uk) for more information.