Please join us Sunday, February 22 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center for our next seminar meeting. Eric Disbro, Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Duke, will be discussing a draft chapter from his book-in-progress, Terraqueous Intimacies: Queer and Trans Crosscurrents in Francophone Archipelagic Literatures.
Eric writes that the book “offers an examination of contemporary narratives written by women from the French-speaking Indian Ocean and Oceanian (Pacific) regions for their representations of queer and trans embodiment and communal care networks that highlight genealogies between queer and trans knowledges and maritime ecologies. …This book takes as its focus the ‘terraqueous intimacies’ born of queer and trans care work that create compelling tactics for coalitional forms of living well––the knowledge and implementation of which could benefit the entire planetary community.”
The draft chapter for discussion, “Sandbar Sentiments: Anzaldúan Queer Coalitions in Ananda Devi’s Ève de ses décombres,” is currently available on the password-protected Papers page of this website, accompanied by a note from the author and an overview of the book’s main arguments and chapters. Please contact a co-convener for this month’s password.
A remote attendance option is also offered for this meeting. Please contact a co-convener for the Zoom link.