Free Queens Feb 25:“Reading Contemporary Travel and Tourism”
| February 25, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Vee Blackbourn presents “Reading Contemporary Travel and Tourism” as part of the Free Queen’s Winter 2008 Course entitled “Making Meaning”
6:30-8:30pm in Dunning 12. Please note there is no class Mon Feb 18th due to Family Day and Reading Week.
What does modern-day luxury tourism have to do with the legacy of European imperialism? This lecture will focus on a section of Jamaica Kincaid’s essay A Small Place as an introduction to contemporary post-colonial critiques of the tourist industry and to post-colonial writing strategies.
Biography: Vee Blackbourn is a doctoral student in the English Department at Queen’s. Her dissertation focuses on the legacies of apartheid in contemporary South African fiction.
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