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SUMMARY:Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Chris Patterson – Department of Humanities and Creative Writing\, Hong Kong Baptist University (http://hum.hkbu.edu.hk/staff.php?staff_class=ts&staff_id=41) \nAbstract\nThis presentation will discuss the major concepts of Dr. Patterson’s book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific\, which traces forms of racial governance from colonial-era racial pluralism to contemporary global multiculturalism through an exploration of Asian migrant narratives from Southeast Asia\, Hawaii\, and North America. Since the early 1990s\, Asian American Studies scholars have often read migrant texts as diasporic\, and have seen the Asian migrant as caught between a mythical homeland and an imperial host country. Transitive Cultures seeks to shift from diaspora as a framework that reinstitutes national categories\, to instead consider ways of reading migrant texts across nations and diasporic groups\, and against the binary of authentic and constructed racial identities. Transitive Cultures thus reframes Asian migrant texts from “diasporic” texts to “transpacific Anglophone” texts in order to archive works deemed "inauthentic" to both nationalist literatures and to American ethnic literatures. These inauthentic texts\, I argue\, speak to a transnational social formation that sees nationalist racial formations as part of a broader transnational form of “pluralist governmentality.” Rather than contrast the racial tolerance of the host country with the intolerance of the homeland\, these migrant stories show how pluralist governmentality\, since the colonial era\, has relied heavily upon hyper-visible and monolithic racial identities\, and has seen the multiplicity of identity\, rather than single nationalist identities\, as its main organizing logic. In response\, these texts work to express “transitive cultures\,” cultures defined not by race or origin\, but by the shared cultural practice of managing\, re-interpreting\, and transitioning among imposed racial identities. \n ||  \nBiography\nChristopher B. Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of games\, literature\, and films through the lens of empire studies\, Asian American studies\, and queer theory. His book\, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press 2018)\, treats transpacific anglophone literature as an alternative archive for following imperial routes and invoking strategies for everyday oppositions. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly\, Games and Culture\, M.E.L.U.S.\, and the anthologies Global Asian American Popular Cultures (New York University Press\, 2016) and Queer Sex Work (Routledge\, 2015). His fiction\, published under his alter ego Kawika Guillermo\, has appeared in The Cimarron Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Drunken Boat and Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism & Beyond. He writes monthly articles for Anomaly and serves as the Prose Editor for decomP Magazine.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/transitive-cultures-anglophone-literature-of-the-transpacific/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Bermuda on the Move: Origins and Typological Affinities of Bermudian English
DESCRIPTION:Dr. des. Nicole Eberle – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/staff/neberle.htm) \nAbstract\nIn this presentation\, I discuss results from both a qualitative and quantitative analysis of Bermudian English\, which form part of a research project on the origins\, dialect contact history and typological relationships of this “lesser-known variety of English” (Schreier et al. 2010). In an attempt to explore the origins and typological status of Bermudian English\, I rate selected morphosyntactic features adapted from Baker and Huber (2001) on the basis of the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (Kortmann and Lunkenheimer 2011) and compare these ratings to those of other varieties in the wider geographical region. Such a comparative approach allows to draw conclusions on traces of input varieties and structural affinities and provides a framework for the typological assessment of Bermudian English on morphosyntactic grounds. \nThe qualitative analysis is complemented by a presentation of selected results from a quantitative analysis of consonant cluster reduction. Based on a distributional and multivariate statistical analysis\, the total frequency of reduction as well as internal and external constraints rankings for this variable are discussed and the results compared to those established for other English varieties. Since consonant cluster reduction is one of the most studied variables\, it is possible to further contextualize the status of Bermudian English on the basis of these results\, so as to assess the amount of dialect and language contact when it formed (compare Schreier 2008). \nSuch a combination of analyses allows to anchor Bermudian English within the canon of other varieties in the wider geographical region and provides the framework to typologically assess and classify Bermudian English; it also aims to further our understanding of one of the most under-researched varieties of English and highlight its comparative potential. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. des. Nicole Eberle joins the School of English at HKU from January to June 2018. She completed her Ph.D. studies in English linguistics with a successful viva at the University of Zurich in December 2017; her dissertation focuses on Bermudian English\, provides a first description of morphosyntactic features and traces the origins and development of this variety as well as typological affiliations with contact-derived varieties in the wider geographical region. \nPrior to starting work at HKU\, she was employed as a teaching and research assistant at the English Department of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Since June 2013\, she is also working as an editorial assistant for English World-Wide. \nHer research interests include sociolinguistics\, language variation and change\, contact linguistics\, lesser-known varieties of English\, English varieties in the Caribbean\, dialect typology\, as well as sociolinguistics of mobility.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/bermuda-on-the-move-origins-and-typological-affinities-of-bermudian-english/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Samoan ghost stories: John Kneubuhl and oral history
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Otto Heim – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nHailed as "the spiritual father of Pacific Island theatre" (Balme 2007: 194)\, John Kneubuhl is best known as a playwright and a Hollywood scriptwriter. Less well known is that after his return to Samoa in 1968 he also devoted much of his time to the study and teaching of Polynesian culture and history. The sense of personal and cultural loss\, which his plays often dramatize in stories of spirit possession\, also guided his investment in oral history\, in the form of extended series of radio talks and public lectures\, as well as long life history interviews. Based on archival recordings of this oral history\, this talk will consider Kneubuhl's sense of history and how it informs his most autobiographical play\, Think of a Garden. \n ||  \nBiography\nOtto Heim's research focuses on writing and performance in the Pacific\, with particular attention to ongoing processes of decolonization and ecological transformation. Recent publications have addressed the connection of sovereignty and ecology in Oceanian poetry\, island logic and poetic re-mappings of the Pacific\, and the forging of Oceanic communities in Pacific theatre. He is also working on a book-length study of the work of the first Polynesian playwright\, American Samoan John Kneubuhl.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/samoan-ghost-stories-john-kneubuhl-and-oral-history/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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