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Mary Chamberlain Culture and Nationhood: George Lamming and the Imagining of the West Indies Thursday, January 31; 4:30 PM Co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh |
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The Barbadian novelist and poet, George Lamming, was a witness to the riots in the British West Indies in th 1930s. He appreciated that they marked the beginning of the West Indian voice and an authentic West Indian identity, in literature, culture and politics. This talk will focus on the paradox of nation-building in the West Indies, and the role of cultural nationalism in resolving it. Dr. Chamberlain has worked with oral history and life story methods, and has published widely on these and on women's history. She is interested in the links with memory and history, and what she calls Œcultural templates, the imaginative structures through which memory is recalled and recounted. Dr. Chamberlain's research has been described as "...original and compelling..."
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