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CCS 2009 Noon Lecture Series: "Alai, Internal Diasporas, and Rethinking Sinophone Literature"
October 27, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM,
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
Host Department: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Carlos Rojas, Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Duke University
Further Information
This talk will consider the work of the ethnically Tibetan, Chinese-language (and Mao Dun Prize-winning) author, Alai. Of particular interest will be the way in which Alai's fiction addresses issues of spatial identification and linguistic alienation, together with the broader implications of his work for our understanding of the categories of Chinese and Sinophone literature.
Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. He is the author of The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity (Harvard Asia Center, 2008); the co-editor (with David Der-wei Wang) of Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Duke, 2007) and (with Eileen Cheng-yin Chow) of Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon (2009); and the co-translator (also with Eileen Chow) of Yu Hua's novel, Brothers (Pantheon, 2009).
