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Centre For Migration Policy Research
18th June 2010
Memories of Escape
A public lecture followed by Question and Answer session
3pm-5pm Keir Hardie Room 152, Swansea University
This lecture will be given by Dr Sissy Helff (Goethe-University of
Frankfurt) who is currently working on a monograph about the
representation of the refugee in the British novel.
Dr Helff teaches postcolonial and transcultural literature, culture,
and film and is especially interested in the English Literatures of
South Asia, Africa, and Australia. She is the author of Unreliable
Truths (forthcoming) and co-editor of Transcultural Modernities:
Narrating Africa in Europe (2009), Transcultural English Studies:
Theories, Fictions, Realities (2008), Facing the East in the West:
Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture
(forthcoming) and The Art of Migration: Africa-Europe (forthcoming).
The event will be chaired by Dr Tom Cheesman (Swansea University).
All welcome (no booking required).
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