Stanford Humanities Center
Schuyler Esprit, Lecturer at University of West Indies and Founder and Director of the Create Caribbean Research Institute, will be joining us over Zoom from Jamaica.
In this workshop, we will explore the ways in which Caribbean reading culture in the digital age has contributed to the framing and reframing of Caribbean identity in the literary world and in broader cultural discourse. By exploring the uses of community reading forums from GoodReads to Bookstagram and BookTok, to more formal spaces of taste making such as book reviews and literary prizes, this workshop aims to reveal how digital technologies have worked to allow Caribbean writers and more importantly readers to claim and reclaim self-making and culture-making about the Caribbean from elite metropolitan publishing culture and the middlebrow literati. We will be using computational tools such as Voyant and programming languages including Python to analyze and produce critical reviews of Caribbean writing as examples of how the feedback loop of social media and digital cultures has facilitated the Caribbean reading renaissance.
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Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
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