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Event Description:The topic of climate change is everywhere, even fiction. Grinnell College Professor of English Shuchi Kapila will discuss how novelists look at the environment in her Bucket Course presentation on April 5, 10:00-11:30 a.m. in the Caulkins Community Room, Drake Community Library. Bucket Courses are open to everyone in the community; no preregistration or fee required. Donations toward refreshments are welcome. Titling her talk “Anthropocene Fictions: How Novels Depict Climate Change,” Kapila will discuss several novels including Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island as well as Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. In her talk she will explore how these two authors and others represent climate change in literature and what that tells us about our world. Kapila’s scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century England, nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism in South Asia, and literary and cultural production in postcolonial South Asia. She is currently working on a project on the memory of the Indian partition of 1947, which created the two South Asian nations of India and Pakistan. She is interested in how memory travels and what kinds of cultural practices of memorialization are progressive and have been successful in South Asia. Members of the sponsoring Community Education Cooperative include Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell College, Drake Community Library, Grinnell-Newburg School District, Grinnell Area Arts Council, Mayflower Community, Grinnell Education Partnership, Read to Lead, and Iowa Valley Community College. Videos of previous Bucket Courses are available on the YouTube channel Grinnell Community Education Cooperative. For more information, contact Judy Hunter judy586@gmail.com. |
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