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SPRING COLLOQUIUM: Post-Doctoral Scholar Dr. Amy King

“A Circum-Caribbean Archive of Violence Made Intimate” Dr. Amy King will present a selection from her monograph-in-progress Grotesque Touch, in which she argues that some circum-Caribbean texts employ intimate touch to transform titillating tropes of violence into radical messages about … Read more

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