The Rockefeller Foundation
Humanities Fellowship Residency Program at City College
Language and Diaspora Culture

2001 –2002 Seminar Series

“Fly Away Home: Orality and Literature
in the Caribbean, African America and Great Britain”
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Thursday, November 8, 2001, noon –1:45
The Rifkind Room (NAC 6/316)

This lecture will focus on the relation of oral and written traditions in the literature of the African Diaspora. The migration of rhetoric about oral expression reveals a lengthy and continuous Trans Atlantic debate about spoken and written traditions since the late 18th century. More recently, African American writers have discussed their relation to print and oral culture, and have associated a literary aesthetic based on the tension between the two. Storey asserts, “orality and literature now co-exist in dynamic, fluid, and creative relationships that deserve greater recognition and more frequent study.”

All Faculty, Students and Friends of CCNY are Welcome
Lunch will be provided

For further information, contact Nicola Blake (Rifkind Coordinator) at X7367, or Ms. Gloria Thomas (Assistant to the Director), IRADAC at X8958

View the Olivia Smith Storey flyer in pdf format

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