‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’

How Britain’s nineteenth century functioned as a field of intelligibility into the problem of decolonization, particularly for Eric Williams, V.S. Naipaul, and C.L.R. James.

Date: 7 February 2024, 17:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue:
Wadham College
Parks Road OX1 3PN
See location on maps.ox

Details: The C. Day Lewis Room
Speaker: Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Part of: Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
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- Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest
Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu