The Department of French and Italian presents a keynote L.P. Irvin
lecture by Professor J. Michael Dash of New York University for its
colloquium on Postcolonial Theory "The Insurrection of Theory."
Professor Dash's talk is entitled "Writing Rocks: Relational
Insularity in Edouard Glissant."

This talk will be held in Room Irvin 40, on WEDNESDAY, December 6 at 5 PM.

Please note that the Graduate student colloquium will precede
Professor Dash's talk on Monday, Dec 4 at 4 PM. Please pass the word
on to all who might be interested in this talk.

Best-Nick

J. Michael Dash has written extensively on the subject of Francophone
Postcolonial Theory and Culture and the Martinican author Edouard
Glissant in particular. His works include Literature and Ideology in
Haiti, Edouard Glissant (Cambridge UP 1995),  The other America :
Caribbean literature in a New World Context (University of Virginia
Press, 1998), as well as the  English language translation of
Glissant's Caribbean Discourse.