BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10468-f9880df38308668d406711070ae4f000@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T213507Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T130000 SUMMARY:HI Resident Lecture: Janet Neigh DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;Repairs Pending: \;Caribbean Street Poetics an d \;the Decolonial Imaginary&rdquo\;\n\nA Faculty Scholar Resident t alk by \;Janet Neigh\, Associate Professor of English\, Penn State B ehrend.\n\nMany important works of anglophone Caribbean poetry\, particu larly performance and vernacular-based work\, takes place in the street. The focus on street life extends across the twentieth century\, both in the Caribbean and in the diaspora\, ranging from Claude McKay&rsquo\;s ballads written in the voice of a constable as he walks his beat to Loui se Bennett&rsquo\;s market women demanding space and recognition at crow ded intersections to Dionne Brand&rsquo\;s documentation of microaggress ions and alienation in the streets of Toronto. The fact that so many poe ms take place in the street\, or draw inspiration from its sights and so unds\, makes sense given the prominence of street-performance culture in the region. However\, this is only part of the story. This talk uncover s how the colonial violence of infrastructure&mdash\;both in the materia l environment and in the literary realm&mdash\;played an antagonistic ro le in the development of street poetics.\n\nFor more details: https://ev ents.la.psu.edu/event/hi_resident_lecture_janet_neigh/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Repai rs Pending: Caribbean Street Poetics and the Decolonial Imagin ary”

A Faculty Scholar Resident talk by Janet Ne igh, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Behrend.

Many important works of anglophone Caribbean poetry, particularly performance and vernacular-based work, takes place in the street. The focus on stre et life extends across the twentieth century, both in the Caribbean and in the diaspora, ranging from Claude McKay’s ballads written in th e voice of a constable as he walks his beat to Louise Bennett’s ma rket women demanding space and recognition at crowded intersections to D ionne Brand’s documentation of microaggressions and alienation in the streets of Toronto. The fact that so many poems take place in the st reet, or draw inspiration from its sights and sounds, makes sense given the prominence of street-performance culture in the region. However, thi s is only part of the story. This talk uncovers how the colonial violenc e of infrastructure—both in the material environment and in the li terary realm—played an antagonistic role in the development of str eet poetics.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ hi_resident_lecture_janet_neigh/

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