Join us on Monday, January 26 from 11:00am to 12:15pm in 1006 North Hall to attend Professor Marta Hernández-Salván's “Aimé Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe, or, The Destructive Invention of Revolution."
Marta Hernández-Salván is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California Riverside. Her areas of interest include Caribbean cultural production, postmarxism, psychoanalysis, critical theory and film. She is the author of _Minima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba_ (forthcoming in SUNY Press). She is currently working on a new project entitled “Caribbean Crossings” dealing with violence and anti-Haitianism in the Spanish Caribbean, and the spectral legacy of the Haitian Revolution.
This lecture is sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of French and Italian, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.