Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar

Venue: Room G37 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

Speakers: Richard Lee, ‘Bringing Back Every Sita’: The 'Recovery of Women Following India’s Partition (1947) in Bapsi Sidhwa’s "Cracking India" and Jyotirmoyee Devi’s "The River Turning" '
Richard Lee is Assistant Principal of Oldham Sixth Form College and a part-time research student in the English Department at the Open University. His research project, entitled "Women and Partition: Indian and Pakistani Novels of the Mid to Late 20th Century" focuses on the role of literature in supplementing or interrupting ‘official’ histories of Partition. He has recently delivered papers at the University of Kent’s Cultural Memory conference (September 2008), at the University of Maynooth’s Ends of Empire conference (June 2009), and at the University of Cardiff’s Partitions and Reunifications conference (July 2009). He has had an article, based on part of his research, published by Quest, the on-line Arts & Humanities journal of Queen’s University, Belfast.