Empire's Ruins: Allegory and Metonymy in JM Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Monday, April 19, 2021
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Zoom
Pratistha Bhattaral, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University and Respondent: Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor, Duke University
Please join the Literature Program on April 19 for its latest Graduate Scholar Colloquium. Doctoral candidate Pratistha Bhattarai will be presenting her work in progress "Empire's Ruins: Allegory and Metonymy in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians." Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor in the Duke English department, will be responding.
The event will take place via Zoom from 11.30am to 1.30pm. Please RSVP to pb150@duke.edu for advance reading material and the Zoom link. See below for a brief overview of the paper.
