More Than A Literary Festival

Barbara Lalla

Barbara Lalla

Barbara Lalla

Author / Professor

Novelist Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is the author of five novels, including By Such a Parting Light, published in 2024. Her numerous scholarly works include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, and the co-authored Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole, Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

A Literary Friendship

Combining penetrating insight with frank self-awareness, A Literary Friendship — based on Rohlehr’s private notebooks and correspondence, and completed not long before his death in early 2023 — is at once memoir, literary analysis, and meditation on fame and obscurity. Publisher Jeremy Poynting introduces this important posthumous work, followed by a conversation among scholars and writers Aaron Kamugisha, Anu Lakhan, and Paula Morgan, chaired by Barbara Lalla.

Combining penetrating insight with frank self-awareness, A Literary Friendship — based on Rohlehr’s private notebooks and correspondence, and completed not long before his death in early 2023 — is at once memoir, literary analysis, and meditation on fame and obscurity. Publisher Jeremy Poynting introduces this important posthumous work, followed by a conversation among scholars and writers Aaron Kamugisha, Anu Lakhan, and Paula Morgan, chaired by Barbara Lalla.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
AV Room, NALIS

Take Two

The bonds of family — and the very definition of “family” — are at the heart of new novels by Myriam J.A. Chancy (Village Weavers) and Barbara Lalla (By Such a Parting Light). They read from and discuss their books, in conversation with Alake Pilgrim.

The bonds of family — and the very definition of “family” — are at the heart of new novels by Myriam J.A. Chancy (Village Weavers) and Barbara Lalla (By Such a Parting Light). They read from and discuss their books, in conversation with Alake Pilgrim.

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