Public Seminar by Dr Dashiell Moore, University of Sydney
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Public Seminar by Dr Dashiell Moore, University of Sydney
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‘The Blackbirding Archipelago in Australian and Pacific Literatures’
Throughout history, islands have been physically and imaginatively constructed as a site of enforced isolation beyond a mainland territory: for quarantine, incarceration, and indefinite detainment. Drawing on Edouard Glissant’s concept of archipelagic thought, Dr Moore asks, under what conditions can we identify connections between islands of containment?
