Aaron Eastley
Speaker
Aaron Eastley is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of California at San Diego, and specializes in transnational literatures in English, British Modernism, and diaspora and globalization studies. He has published articles on both Seepersad Naipaul and V. S. Naipaul in the Journal of Caribbean Literatures, ARIEL, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, New Literatures Review, and Twentieth-Century Literature.
Amazing Scenes
The launch of a comprehensive collection of the journalism of Seepersad Naipaul, first published mainly in the Trinidad Guardian between 1928 and 1953. Seepersad Naipaul’s articles and columns form a unique social and cultural history of Trinidad’s sugar-lands and its many peoples, as well as a vivid portrayal of a colonial Trinidad teeming with character, incident, and political vibrations. Peepal Tree Press’s edition gives this “lost” body of writing back to all those who want to understand the making of David Rudder’s magic island. This launch event includes contributions and conversations from co-editors Kenneth Ramchand, Nivedita Misra, and Aaron Eastley, and publisher Jeremy Poynting. There will be readings from the book by Breanne Mc Ivor, Celeste Mohammed, Ingrid Persaud, and David Sammy.The launch of a comprehensive collection of the journalism of Seepersad Naipaul, first published mainly in the Trinidad Guardian between 1928 and 1953. Seepersad Naipaul’s articles and columns form a unique social and cultural history of Trinidad’s sugar-lands and its many peoples, as well as a vivid portrayal of a colonial Trinidad teeming with character, incident, and political vibrations. Peepal Tree Press’s edition gives this “lost” body of writing back to all those who want to understand the making of David Rudder’s magic island. This launch event includes contributions and conversations from co-editors Kenneth Ramchand, Nivedita Misra, and Aaron Eastley, and publisher Jeremy Poynting. There will be readings from the book by Breanne Mc Ivor, Celeste Mohammed, Ingrid Persaud, and David Sammy.