Murdoch University
The Krishna Somers Foundation has been established through the generous benefaction of Dr Krishna Somers, a Perth physician and cardiologist. The aim of the Foundation, which is located in the Division’s Centre for Social Change and Social Equity, is to foster research in the study of diasporas. It is envisaged that the Foundation will award short-term visiting fellowships to researchers who wish to pursue a program of research in diaspora studies as well as support general research in this area in other ways
The Foundation’s August lectures are given below. Please endeavour to come to these and enjoy the talks with top class wine.
Federica Zullo:
When: Wednesday August 27 4.30 PM
Where: Education and Humanities 3.041
Title: Nation and Narration: Postcolonial India and the works of Amitav Ghosh
Federica is a PhD candidate in the Literatures and Cultures of the English-Speaking Countries Program at the University of Bologna. Her masters level dissertation was on the literary production of Bombay and Los Angeles with reference to Rushdie, Desai, Mistry, Chandler, Ellis and Ellroy.
In her paper Federica proposes to distinguish between eurocentric and postcolonial readings of the nation via the works of Gellner, Hobsbawm, Arjun Appadurai, Benedict Anderson, E. Balibar, Timothy Brennan and Homi Bhabha. She will investigate the historical and political processes that have led to the construction of the nation in postcolonial societies and how these processes have been captured in works of literature. Her proof texts are taken from Rushdie and, more immediately for this paper, Amitav Ghosh
