Imaging a Caribbean Future: Caribbean Literature and Science Fiction
February 11
Meigs Room, Swope Center, MBL, 5 North Street, Woods Hole.
12:00p.m.
Woods Hole Black History Month is sponsored by the Marine Biological Laboratory; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the U.S. Coast Guard Group Woods Hole; the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Back to Calendar
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Imaging a Caribbean Future: Caribbean Literature and Science Fiction
Alisa Braithwaite, Assistant Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Using the works of writers such as Nalo Hopkinson, Erna Brodber, Tobias Bucknell, and Junot Díaz, Alisa Braithwaite explores how the genres of science fiction and fantasy allow alternative representations of time and community for a geographical region that already disrupts our conceptions of history and national borders. Braithwaite received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University. Her current research focuses on contemporary Caribbean speculative fiction.
FREE and open to the public.
Woods Hole Black History Month is sponsored by the Marine Biological Laboratory; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the U.S. Coast Guard Group Woods Hole; the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Back to Calendar