PhD Candidate Department of French and Italian Corbin Treacy to Present at CHGS (Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies) Workshop
Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies
Friday, March 1
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Room 710 Social Sciences
Aesthetics and Aftermath: Algeria 1962-2012
Treacy's dissertation studies
Algerian novels in French 
landscape of the post-independence period. Through their literary form,
engagement with the political present, and utopian thinking, these works
imagine counter-realities that interrupt the closed-circuit loop of
violence and paralysis that have defined public life in Algeria in the
aftermath of independence from France in 1962.
Building on the
recent work of critics who combine materialist dialectics and
post-colonial critique, He will show how these texts disrupt this
permanence of aftermath through particular aesthetic moves, suggesting
new ways of reading post-colonial literature beyond the polarities of
politics and poetics.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden at golde118@umn.edu.
Updated schedule: CHGS 2013 HGMV Workshop 2-1-2013.pdf
