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SUMMARY:Lecture: Gender, Work and Decolonization
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CONTACT:Herr Karel Pletinck (Kulturwissenschafliches Institut Essen (KWI))
DESCRIPTION:Herr Karel Pletinck (Kulturwissenschafliches Institut Essen (KWI))
Lecture: Gender, Work and Decolonization
Looking for Women in Literary Journals at the End of Empire
Literary journals proliferated across colonial Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa in the decades around decolonization. In this lecture, I focus on two of the most influential publications with the widest international reach: Présence Africaine (published in Paris from 1947) and Mensagem (published in Lisbon from 1946-64) to discuss questions of method, gender, and form.

Neither journal published much work ascribed to women in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Like many nationalist organizations, these literary institutions were patriarchal spaces, underpinned by norms of sociality that marginalized women, and particularly black women. Two questions emerge here. First, what divisions of labour underpinned the journals and shaped their form? I argue that even when not acknowledged as authors, women were involved in the connective and comparative work both journals undertook, notably as translators. 

SPEAKER
Alexandra Reza, University of Bristol

Organizer
Karel Pletinck, KWI Int. Fellow
Monday, 17. February 2025
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