CCA SYMPOSIUM
March 20, 2024
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The Indian Ocean has always been the most “global” of all oceans. The oldest in human history, it has enabled contact among travelers, scholars, and merchants of the most diverse origins for more than 5000 years. It figures in a sizable corpus of travel narratives and other literary genres that have influenced the direction of European literary movements from the eighteenth century to the present. Yet it remains, among US-based humanists, the least studied of the large bodies of water that link continents, archipelagos, and their inhabitants. Today, it is the site of a migrant crisis that is completely invisible to the West, but that writers evoke powerfully in their poetic texts. My goal is to discuss two artists from the region’s multilingual archipelagos: Sœuf Elbadawi from the Comoros and Shenaz Patel from the Mascarenes. Guest Biography |
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