the flyer
Transcrição
the flyer
Das Transnational American Studies Institute am Department of English and Linguistics lädt herzlich ein zum Gastvortrag von Dr. Selina Lai-Henderson Research Assistant Professor University of Hong Kong Langston Hughes, Harlem and Shanghai Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the first African American writer to ever set foot on Chinese soil. At the age of 31, he pioneered what none of his contemporaries or predecessors was able to achieve—rewrite the public image of African Americans in the Chinese cultural and intellectual imagination. Hughes's sojourn in Shanghai and his encounter with Chinese writers shaped his body of work in profound ways that complicated the discussions of race, national identity, and global citizenship in a transnational arena. Selina Lai-Henderson is Research Assistant Professor of American Studies at The University of Hong Kong. She was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University in 2011-12. She is the author of Mark Twain in China (Stanford University Press, 2015), and she is currently working on black internationalism of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois in China. Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 16-18 Uhr Fakultätssaal (Philosophicum) Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee [email protected] Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!