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Identity and Culture: Postcolonial Perspectives in Select South Asian Writing

Mar 31, 2023   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL-61820
Lecture
Sponsor
CSAMES
Speaker
Dr. Kalpana RaoHulluru, Professor at the Department of English, Pondicherry (Central) University, India.
Contact
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
E-Mail
csames@illinois.edu
Phone
217-265-5016
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This lecture debates upon the definition and function of the term, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ leading to the argument that identity encapsulates difference while culture is a phenomenon by which decolonization occurs. The later part of the presentation reads a few select South Asian works to reveal the nature of identity and culture and the multiple levels at which it exists.  

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