Humanities
The East Indian: Writing History Through Fiction
March 1, 2024 at 3:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Eggers Hall, Strasser Legacy Room 220
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Brinda Charry (Keene University )
Global Premodern Studies welcomes all to hear Charry — a Syracuse University (PhD) alumna — discuss her work, and how her writings have been informed by her scholarship in early modern literature, especially Shakespeare.
Charry’s latest acclaimed novel, The East Indian, is about the arrival of the first Indian to Virginia. A key dimension of the story is the protagonist’s encounter with Indigenous peoples of the New World as well as the way that the white settlers assume that he is Indigenous rather than an “East Indian.” Ecology, sexual identity, and slavery are other themes featured within the novel.
The e-book version of Charry’s novel is available to SU faculty, students and staff at Bird Library.
Supported by:
- Anthropology
- Creative Writing
- English
- Geography and the Environment
- Global PreModern Studies
- History
- Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Religion
- South Asia Center
- Syracuse University Humanities Center
This event was published on February 22, 2024.
Event Details
- Category
- Humanities
- Type
- Discussions
- Region
- Campus
- Open to
- Public
- Organizers
- MAX-History,
- CAS-Department of English
- Contact
- MAX-History
cmcleaso@syr.edu
+1.315.443.2210
- Accessibility
- Contact MAX-History to request accommodations