"Empowering Ruins: An Archaeology of Two Activist Spaces in Detroit, Gordon Park and the Grande Ballroom"

The Tulane University Center for Archaeology presents an archaeology brownbag lunch talk.

 

"Empowering Ruins: An Archaeology of Two Activist Spaces in Detroit, Gordon Park and the Grande Ballroom"

Krysta Ryzewski, Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Friday, 2/28/2020, 12:00PM, Dinwiddie Hall Room 305

 

The Sino-French Text: A Migrant Aesthetic between China and France


Recent cultural production by Chinese immigrants to France such as Dai Sijie, Shan Sa and Gao Xingjian play out a complicated relationship to the political and aesthetic ideals that long characterized their home country in the French imaginary. Indeed, 19th century French race theory and world politics relegated China to the status of a rival power that needed to be subdued. Even over the next century, fear of Chinese invasion permeated the work of the most famous of France’s Sinophile writers like Victor Segalen and Marguerite Duras.

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