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  • Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication
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  • University of Dundee
  • University of Reading

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  • Cultural Policy, 23rd August, 2011
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We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University.

He will be speaking on:

The Scene of Reading and the Literary Market Place: Some Postcolonial Reflections

This lecture will reflect on the intimate and intricate relationship between texts and their readers in the context of colonial and postcolonial experiences. While acts of reading have often been described as ephemeral, transient and universal, they have also emerged in specific situations. In the colonial world writing was associated with modernity and the break from pre-colonial systems of thought and knowledge; it set out to produce new subjects. In the postcolonial world, the practice of reading was pegged on the production of new national subjects; it was informed by the desire for sovereignty. The lecture will try to account for the immediacy of reading in these contexts and the sets of practices that it generated: How did the worlds of texts and those of readers encounter each other in the colonial world? How have readers been imagined in colonial and postcolonial texts? What can practitioners in independent publishing learn from histories and theories of reading developed outside the metropolitan centers?

This event is free, but registration is required.

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