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Silverfish Public Talk: Jose Saramago
Mark Sabine from the University of Nottingham and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, invites you to an event Silverfish Public Talk: Jose Saramago.
This talk provides an introduction to Saramago’s intellectually challenging, yet highly imaginative and often playful writing, and to its cultural and political background before focusing on the last of his major works to appear in English translation, Raised from the Ground (originally published in 1980).
Mark will explore how, with this novel, Saramago pioneered his characteristically digressive narration and minimal use of punctuation, as well as his use of fantastic and counter-factual devices to reveal and speculate upon the blind-spots of documented history. It will also consider how the novel exemplifies Saramago’s rather ambivalent relationship with revolutionary Marxism in his attempts to use literature to speak out against tyranny and censorship, to inspire new campaigns for social justice, and to help us learn from, rather than repeat, the errors of the past.
Details:
Date: Saturday, 13 December 2014
Venue: Silverfish Books
28-1 Jalan Telawi
Bangsar Baru
59100 Kuala Lumpur
Time: 17:30 to 19:30
Admission is free (please do RSVP by email or telephone 603-2284 4837).
Transport to and fro from Semenyih Campus will be provided,
email FASS@nottingham.edu.my should you
require it.
About the Speaker:
Mark Sabine lectures in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies of the University of Nottingham, working principally in the UK but making regular visits to the University’s campus in Semenyih, Malaysia. His research focuses on modern Portuguese and lusophone African literature, culture, and history, and includes studies of major writers such as Saramago, Fernando Pessoa, and Luís Bernardo Honwana, as well as articles on post-conflict memory and on representations of dissident gender identities and sexuality in Portuguese-speaking communities. He has published and lectured in Brazil, the USA, Canada, and a number of European countries, and is now also one of the coordinators of an international network of researchers exploring cultural connections and exchange across the Indian Ocean region.
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