Please join us Sunday, September 14 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our first seminar of the academic year. Erika Serrato, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, will be discussing a chapter from her current book project, Native Blueprint: Reading the Landscape and the Making of an Indigenous Caribbean, which examines “how contemporary writers and other artists and intellectuals in Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique conjure and recast key historical moments of engagement, transmission, and remembrance of the Caribbean’s autochthonous populations.”
The chapter, entitled “Roucou: Sketches of History,” looks at Amerindian history and knowledge as depicted in graphic novels and is currently available on the password-protected Papers page of this website. Please contact a co-convener for this month’s password.