"The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste": A Presentation by Simon Gikandi
Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.
Cosponsored by the Department of English and the Ofiice of International Programs.
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