Anne-Sophie Bogetoft Mortensen:

Tidalectic (E)earth Poetics

This talk will present an analysis of Trinidadian Jennifer Rahim’s poetic production over the last 20 years as portraying what I will call a (E)earth poetics. In my analysis I aim to demonstrate how Rahim implements three different scales of (E)earthly catastrophes, the local, Trinidadian plantation, the cross-national earthquake, and lastly, the global, planetary concern of C02-emission, and thereby demonstrates how one might read our global climate crisis via the local (hi)stories of her own birth-island.

Anne-Sophie Bogetoft Mortensen is a PhD-fellow in Aesthetic Culture and Intercultural Studies at the Institute of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Please note the start time of 6pm for this online talk.

To register your interest for this online talk via Teams, please email the Centre’s secretary, Lisa.D.Cook@warwick.ac.uk by 12 noon, Friday 21^st October.