The Grenada Revolution, through a humanities lens
Grenada’s short-lived communist government fell in 1983 during the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island nation. This week, an expert on the topic will discuss conflicting memories of the revolution and U.S. intervention from the perspective of the humanities.
Associate Professor Shalini Puri is scheduled to speak on the topic Thursday, Feb. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies, on the fifth floor of Norlin Library at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Puri’s presentation is titled: “Lives and Afterlives: The Grenada Revolution, The U.S. Invasion, and the Public Humanities”
Puri is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies in the Caribbean.
Her most recent book, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present, examines the history of Grenada between the installation of the People’s Revolutionary Government in 1979 and 1983, when invading U.S. forces ousted remaining revolutionary leaders.
It is the first scholarly book to look closely at conflicting memories of the revolution and U.S. intervention from the perspective of the humanities.
This event is sponsored by CU-Boulder’s Departments of English and French and Italian. It is part of the Lecture Series on Caribbean Studies, which was made possible with the support of the President’s Fund for the Humanities and the Center for Western Civilization.
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Feb. 23, 2015
Shalini Puri, associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor Shalini Puri is scheduled to speak on the topic Thursday, Feb. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies, on the fifth floor of Norlin Library at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Puri’s presentation is titled: “Lives and Afterlives: The Grenada Revolution, The U.S. Invasion, and the Public Humanities”
Puri is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies in the Caribbean.
Her most recent book, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present, examines the history of Grenada between the installation of the People’s Revolutionary Government in 1979 and 1983, when invading U.S. forces ousted remaining revolutionary leaders.
It is the first scholarly book to look closely at conflicting memories of the revolution and U.S. intervention from the perspective of the humanities.
This event is sponsored by CU-Boulder’s Departments of English and French and Italian. It is part of the Lecture Series on Caribbean Studies, which was made possible with the support of the President’s Fund for the Humanities and the Center for Western Civilization.
For more information, click here.
Feb. 23, 2015