【10月27日】
/大洋洲研究中心系列讲座/
Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
主讲人：Bill Ashcroft
Model minorities or Impostors:
Redefining Cultural Citizenship in the Chinese Diaspora
主讲人：Wenche Ommundsen
主持人：程颖洁
研讨嘉宾：
王光林教授 王腊宝教授 吕丽盼副教授
时间：10月27日（周二）14:00-16:00
地点：松江校区五教楼5121教室
讲座简介
1.Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state. Drawing from postcolonial studies, it examines how marginalized and colonized groups resist and navigate the systems of control imposed by the state – resistance that may be subtle, yet constant and potent. Through the concept of the transnation, Bill Ashcroft reveals how individuals and groups move while avoiding the restrictive practices of borders. It emphasizes the increasing global mobility and how all nations, whether their populations are moving or not, can be seen as transnations. The book provides a radical lens on mobility, showing how deeply it impacts nations and how it might pose a threat to traditional forms of control. The work covers critical themes such as: nations, postnationalism, and the transnation; the space of the transnation; borders and bordering practices; the subjects of the transnation; the transnation and the city; and the porosity of borders in the works of Rushdie and Ghosh. An ideal resource for scholars and students of global movement, migration, literary studies, postcolonial studies, and transnational studies, this book provides a unique perspective on how people move within and across the boundaries of nation-states in an increasingly interconnected world. This book will be of great use to scholars and students investigating the increase in global movement.
2.As migration and globalisation has forced a rethinking of the relationship between citizenship and culture, the concept of cultural citizenship has been deployed in sociological theory to enhance our understanding of how individuals and communities negotiate their place in the world at local, national and transnational levels. This lecture examines the ongoing renegotiation of cultural citizenship with reference to two recent novels by young diasporic writers: The Albatross (2023) by Nina Wan in Australia and Yellowface (2023) by Rebecca Kuang in the US. Responding to the precarious position of diasporic subjects in relation to contemporary debates around race, gender and identity, both offer a fearless diagnosis of social change, and social pathologies, in their examination of the cultural ecosystems of contemporary Western societies.
主讲人简介
Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial theory, and co-author of The Empire Writes Back – the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. He is author and co-author of twenty-three books and over two hundred articles and chapters, variously translated into six languages, and he is on the editorial boards of ten international journals. His latest works are Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (2016); The Postcolonial Studies Reader (3rd ed., 2025); and Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies (4th ed., 2025). He is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Wenche Ommundsen, Professor Emerita – University of Wollongong, Guest Professor – Wuhan University. Wenche Ommundsen was born in Norway and educated in Norway, USA, Switzerland, UK and Australia. After receiving her PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Melbourne she has taught Literary and Cultural Studies at Deakin University and the University of Wollongong, Australia, as well as Wuhan University, China. She has held numerous positions in academic leadership, including Dean of Research and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Her teaching and research expertise includes Australian and comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory, with particular emphasis on multicultural, postcolonial and diasporic writing. She has published widely in these fields, specialising in Asian diaspora writing. Her publications include five books and close to a hundred book chapters and journal articles. Currents projects include editing a book, Asian Australian Writing as World Literature, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.
