The East Indian: Writing History Through Fiction
Time: March 1, 2024, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Strasser Legacy Room 220 Eggers Hall
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.
Additional supporters:
- 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