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Prose as Praxis: Nazruls Emancipatory and Imagination and Dialectical Dance

Lake Balboa Room, Northridge Center Complex, University Student Union 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA, United States

REBEL POET? OR REVOLUTIONARY MILITANT? This lecture will resituate Bangladesh's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam through Dr. Hussain's reading of his engagements with anticolonial struggle and an insurrectionary vision of decolonized "world literature." Reading Nazrul's writings through Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani's notion of muqawamah, and in dialogue with the Latin American revolutionary Roque Dalton's concept… Continue reading Prose as Praxis: Nazruls Emancipatory and Imagination and Dialectical Dance

This lecture will resituate Bangladesh's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam through Dr. Hussain's reading of his engagements with anticolonial struggle and an insurrectionary vision of decolonized "world literature." Reading Nazrul's writings through Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani's notion of muqawamah, and in dialogue with the Latin American revolutionary Roque Dalton's concept of "militant poetics," Hussain argues that Nazrul's work anticipates Frantz Fanon, Cabral, and Thiong'o, while remaining irreducibly his own: multilingual, materialist, internationalist.

Rainbow Graduation

Northridge Center Complex, University Student Union 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA, United States

Con-grad-ulations! Come honor Queer achievements on campus at Rainbow Graduation! In collaboration with the Queer Studies Program, we invite you to celebrate your success with your community and enjoy keynote speakers, student performances and delicious food. Bring your friends and family to watch you walk across the stage and receive a rainbow sash!  RSVP here… Continue reading Rainbow Graduation

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