An Afternoon with Joan Anim-Addo: Faculty/Student Discussion

This event offers a sharing of Joan Anim-Addo's paper, “Taking Black British Literature to the Deconstruction Table,” presented at the 8th “Derrida Today” Conference, Athens, Greece, June 2024. The essay interrogates what might be gained by exploring Black British Literature through Derridean lens as framed by Elisabeth Weber’s assertion that “Deconstruction is Justice” (2005). Centralizing women’s voices, Anim-Addo will discuss the UK’s higher education in terms of including Katherine McKittrick black geographies, and draw on Jacqueline Crooks’ Fire Rush (2023) and Sara Collins’s The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) to contribute a literary focus to the paper.