Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street
The Department of Literary Studies presents a public symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jean Rhys’s most famous and influential novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This day-long symposium is the latest in a worldwide series of events marking the occasion.
Speakers include novelist Robert Antoni, author of Blessed is the Fruit and As Flies to Whatless Boys; novelist Caryl Phillips, author of Dancing in the Dark and The Lost Child; critic and cultural historian Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, author of Literatures of the Caribbean and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life; critic and cultural historian Erica Johnson, author of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, and coeditor of Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches; and Literary Studies professor Elaine Savory, author of Jean Rhys and Introduction to Jean Rhys.
The event is free and open to the public.
https://events.newschool.edu/event/jean_rhyss_wide_sargasso_sea_a_celebration#.V_598vkrKJA
Download program here or view it online here. Read Elaine Savory’s post on the program here.
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street
The Department of Literary Studies presents a public symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jean Rhys’s most famous and influential novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This day-long symposium is the latest in a worldwide series of events marking the occasion.
Speakers include novelist Robert Antoni, author of Blessed is the Fruit and As Flies to Whatless Boys; novelist Caryl Phillips, author of Dancing in the Dark and The Lost Child; critic and cultural historian Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, author of Literatures of the Caribbean and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life; critic and cultural historian Erica Johnson, author of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, and coeditor of Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches; and Literary Studies professor Elaine Savory, author of Jean Rhys and Introduction to Jean Rhys.
The event is free and open to the public.
https://events.newschool.edu/event/jean_rhyss_wide_sargasso_sea_a_celebration#.V_598vkrKJA
Download program here or view it online here. Read Elaine Savory’s post on the program here.