CCGES and the CITY Institute at York are pleased to present “Cultural Diversity and the Global City of Toronto – Dionne Brand’s “What We All Long For”, a lecture by Melanie Pooch, a Visiting Research Scholar from the University of Mannheim’s “Formations of the Global” PhD program. This will take place on Wednesday, May 4th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in room 280A York Lanes (click here for a campus map).
In her novel, the Caribbean Canadian author Dionne Brand portrays Toronto as a space of distinguishing transcultural diversity. This paper will analyze the global city’s function as a cultural contact zone from a literary perspective. Particular emphasis will be given to the intrinsic relationship of identity and space, the significance of the urban setting as well as the different challenges of Toronto’s first-generation and second-generation immigrants.
Melanie holds a degree in English Language and Literature as well as Business Administration from the University of Mannheim. She is currently a doctoral student and scholarship recipient of the graduate program ‘Formations of the Global’, investigating processes of cultural globalization from literary perspectives. In the doctoral program, she is concentrating on the global cities of Los Angeles, New York as well as Toronto and their function as (trans)cultural nodal points.
Everyone is welcome!
