The Blue Clerk: A Reading with Dionne Brand followed by a conversation with Saidiya Hartman
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Barnard Center for Research on Women
December 22, 2018
Reading of The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand Followed by a conversation with Saidiya Hartman Part of The Sojourner Project - Dialogues on Black Precarity, Fungibility, and Futurity A convening curated by the Practicing Refusal Collective This event was recorded on October 31, 2018 in Paris, France. The Sojourner Project was convened with the generous support of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Columbia Institute for Research on Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination, and the Barnard College Office of International Initiatives and Special Projects.
Reading of The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand Followed by a conversation with Saidiya Hartman Part of The Sojourner Project - Dialogues on Black Precarity, Fungibility, and Futurity A convening curated by the Practicing Refusal Collective This event was recorded on October 31, 2018 in Paris, France. The Sojourner Project was convened with the generous support of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Columbia Institute for Research on Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination, and the Barnard College Office of International Initiatives and Special Projects.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems,
won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections
have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary
Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Bread Out of Stone and A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging.
From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's poet laureate, and in 2021
she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in
Toronto.
ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER:
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection, Lose Your Mother, and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a University Professor at Columbia University, and a contributing editor at BOMB.