Join us from November 20-27 for another JWIL online residency. For this residency, Randi Gill-Sadler (@TheRandiSavage) will revisit the inspiration, reception, and literary afterlife of Paule Marshall’s second novel The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. Diasporic in both its content and its reach, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People offers significant insights into contemporary discussions of the plantation, the afterlife of slavery, and colonialism. Gill-Sadler will also highlight the significance of the novel to diasporic Black literary history and the traces of its influence, and Marshall’s influence more broadly on African American and Caribbean literature. This exploration of Marshall’s novel also coincides with the celebration of Barbados’ independence on November 30.
Randi Gill-Sadler (@TheRandiSavage) is an assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at Davidson College. She has published and has work forthcoming in Feminist Formations, Small Axe, and Radical History Review. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s literature, Black feminist literary theory, and U.S. Cultures of Empire. She is currently writing her first book Diasporic Dissonance: The Archipelagic Circuit of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance and U.S. Empire.
