Instytut Anglistyki zaprasza
24 kwietnia br. (czwartek) o godzinie 10.00 w sali 11 (bud. A3)

na wykład gościnny

Christophera L. Ballengee
pt. The Poetics of Arrival and the Afterlives of Indian Caribbean Indenture*
*Indentured servitude – “niewola kontraktowa”

Beginning in the 1840s and ending in 1917, a complex system of indentureship recruited hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children from present-day India to work on plantation colonies around the world. The British Caribbean was the largest beneficiary of this system. The talk will explore the intergenerational legacies of Indian indentureship, long after the system’s official end in 1920, in the creative expression of the Indian Caribbean and its diaspora. Examples discussed emphasize the Indian Caribbean cultural memory expressed in poetry, music, and visual art.

Christopher L. Ballengee is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in music of the Caribbean and in the theory and practice of ethnographic and documentary film. He directed the documentary Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora (2019); and is editor of Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South (2022) and the forthcoming volume Documentary Film in Latin America and the Caribbean: Perspectives and Practice.

Prace graficzne: Richard Williams, Trinidad & Tobago, #breadfruitnotbombs