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]
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