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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, September 05, 2024 3:30 pm to 5
 :00 pm \n EAS Lounge, 14th Floor \n Robarts Library \n 130 St. George St.
  Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 \n\nSpeakers \nDuncan Yoon Associate Professor\
 , Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University \n\nDesc
 ription: \nChina in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature
  unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Ch
 inese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how C
 hina, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the end of t
 he twentieth century, has transformed patterns of globalization across th
 e continent. In this ground-breaking work on cultural representations, Du
 ncan M. Yoon examines the controversial symbol of China in African literat
 ure. He reads acclaimed authors like Kofi Awoonor, Henri Lopes, and Bess
 ie Head, as well as contemporary writers, including Ufrieda Ho, Kwei Qu
 artey, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Each chapter focuses on a genre such as
  poetry, popular fiction, memoir, and the novel, drawing out themes li
 ke resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race. Yoon demonstrates h
 ow African creative voices grapple with and make meaning out of the possib
 ilities and limitations of globalization in an increasingly multipolar wor
 ld.Duncan M. Yoon is an associate professor at NYU - Gallatin. His book, 
 China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature, was published in 2023 
 with Cambridge University Press. The manuscript received the American Comp
 arative Literature Association's (ACLA) Helen Tartar First Book Subvention
  Award. His articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literat
 ure, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Verge
 : Studies in Global Asias, Publications of the Modern Language Associatio
 n (PMLA), Journal of World Literature, Research in African Literatures,
  and The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. He chaired th
 e executive committee for the Modern Language Association's forum African 
 Literature to 1990 in 2022. He also served as a Fulbright Scholar to South
  Korea in 2004 and was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in 2018. 
 \n130 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 \n\nCategories \n Book Talk
 Speaker Series \n\nAudiences \n FacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Stud
 ents
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LOCATION:130 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5
SUMMARY:China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/china-20th-and-21st-century
 -african-literature
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