Stephen Clingman, "Before Human Rights: The Question of Fiction"
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: February 6, 2017 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 135 [tentative]
Event Details
Stephen Clingman, "Before Human Rights: The Question of Fiction"
Date and Time: February 6, 2017 - 4:00 PM
Event Location: HIB 135 [tentative]
Event Details
Stephen Clingman is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has held fellowships at a number of institutions internationally, including the University of the Witwatersrand, Yale, Cornell, the Wilson Center (Washington D.C.), and Stellenbosch University. His books include The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside and an edited collection of essays by Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places, translated into a number of languages. Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, a biography of the lawyer and political figure who led Nelson Mandela’s defense at the Rivonia Trial, won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier prize for non-fiction. Stephen has written articles for a range of journals internationally, as well as reviews for the Boston Globe and New York Times. His most recent books are The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary, and Birthmark, a memoir published both in South Africa and the USA.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Commons, Comp Lit, English, and African American Studies.
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