Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Dr. Chantal Zabus
Date:
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall and Zoom
Streaming Link:
Contact Person:
Rys Shultz
Contact Email:
rysshultz@pitt.edu
“Translects” (Zabus & Das, 2020) are transnational, transgender-inflected terms rooted in ancestral contexts. Hinging on ‘transing’ and ‘translating’, I examine the use of translects in ‘autofictions’ — South African Zandile Ngozi Nkabinde’s Black Bull, Ancestors and Me (2008), contrasted with South African Anastacia Thomson’s Always Anastacia (2015); Nigerian-born, US-based, Igbo-Tamil writer, Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018); and Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir (2021) — to reflect on a ‘post-queer’ and post-secular turn in approaching transgender identities and personhoods, which translate into various shades of postcolonial naming practices in Sub-Saharan Africa.
UCIS Unit:
Center for African Studies
Global Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of French & Italian
Department of History
Gender Sexuality & Women's Studies Program
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
Yes
University Calendar ID:
https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/translects-and-postcolonial-identity-transgender-narratives-in-south-african-and-nigerian-autofictions