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Kaneesha Parsard joins the Workshop in Transnational Cultural History to discuss "The Friending Plot: Sexual and Economic Freedoms in Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Fiction."

The paper will be available approximately one week in advance. Please contact Anna Zalokostas or Viola Bao for access.

Kaneesha Parsard is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Her scholarship examines the legacies of slavery and emancipation in the Americas, and particularly concerns how gender and sexuality structure race, labor, and capital. Her first book project, An Illicit Wage: Economies of Sex and the Family after West Indian Emancipation, argues that, as British colonial administrators and employers sought to manage Black labor and indentured Indian labor, West Indian cultural works began to imagine informal economies and intimacies that delinked freedom from the wage.

This event will take place on Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98768647550