The Diasporic Imaginary: Postcolonialism and Diaspora
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Ato Quayson delivers a public lecture as part of his short-term residency at the FHI, dealing with diasporic literature in greater context of post-colonialism. Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has been since August 2005. He did his BA at the University of Ghana and took his PhD from Cambridge University in 1995. He then went on to the University of Oxford as a Research Fellow, returning to Cambridge in Sept 1995 to become a Fellow at Pembroke College and a member of the Faculty of English where he eventually became a Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. - See more at: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/quayson-lecture#sthash.YH2kucH0.dpuf
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