Review: ‘My Dream or Yours? Make America ______ Again’, IAAS Postgraduate Symposium
‘My Dream or Yours? Make America ______ Again’, Irish Association for American Studies Postgraduate Symposium, University College Cork, 26 November 2016. The 2016 Irish Association of American Studies Postgraduate Symposium boasted a triumphant return to Cork following a number of successful conferences in the capital since 2011. The theme, ‘My Dream or Yours? Make America ______ Again’, was originally conceived in the hope of attracting a broader spectrum of scholarship, extending the parameters beyond the traditionally—if not intentionally—literature-oriented subject matter of recent IAAS conferences. The event sought to showcase emerging, early-career research in a number of disciplines and fields, alongside literature; among them, history, politics, screen media and computing. The title of the conference encouraged panellists, spectators and organisers to voice their hopes for the United States in an uncertain future; to read America’s projected ‘greatness’ in a multitude of different ways. Held in UCC’s celebrated Council Chambers, the conference’s […]
Book Review: Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary edited by William Dow, Alice Craven and Yoko Nakamura
The collection is a long-awaited product of a 2008 Conference at the American University of Paris, one of many events held to mark Richard Wright’s birth centennial, and, much like the Paris conference itself, argues for Wright’s increased relevancy in an increasingly transnational and seemingly post-racial culture.