Select Fridays between September 2015 and May 2016, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
An Ecocritical Reading of Madness in Caribbean Fiction
Madness has historically functioned as a powerful trope of gender, race, or class oppression in fiction from colonized and postcolonial countries. Mardorossian examines how Caribbean writers have negotiated the danger that the trope of madness poses, namely that of leading to unidimensional characters. She argues that one of the ways Caribbean writers negotiate madness' unidimensionality is through their characters' association with a multi-layered environment and landscape.
