Events
Week of Events
Bettina Apthekar: “Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Bettina Apthekar Bettina Apthekar Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies and History, UCSC "Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States" In 2010 gays and lesbians of the U.S. Communist Party began publishing a newsletter, The Queer Communist, whose emblem is a pink triangle superimposed on a hammer […]
UCSC Winter Living Writers Series: giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan
Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series giovanni singleton and Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton Ara Shirinyan giovanni singleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a critically acclaimed journal dedicated to experimental work by artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Counterpath Press will publisher […]
Gautam Premnath: “Urban Form, Minority Identity, and Narrative Drift in Altaf Tyrewala’s No God in Sight”
Thirty-two pages into No God in Sight (2005), Altaf Tyrewala's novel undertakes a dramatic formal turn. By this point, Tyrewala has established an inventive formula, serving up a series of brief, elegantly crafted, loosely connected, first-person narratives that chart sinuous, unpredictable pathways through various Bombay localities. Throughout Tyrewala sustains an unvaryingly wry, detached narratorial voice […]