Speaker:
Christopher B. Patterson (aka Kawika Guillermo), Associate Professor, Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia
Moderator:
Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time (7:00 pm/Sep 19, Vancouver)
Venue: On Zoom
This talk catalogues the author’s writing process for their prose-poetry book, Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir, using the concept of creative “self-referencing:” the way writers discover their multiple selves scattered throughout the world (and in art), and how they seek to reference them in their own work. Against forms of creative imagination that see writers as singular “voices” who express their individuality, self-referencing discloses the many others (authors, communities, kin) who influence an authors’ sense of self. For marginalized authors, self-referencing has become a resistant form of embodied cross-referencing that affirms the writer’s non-normative desires, experiences, and ways of being (and writing) by embracing their multiple points of (self)reference, and their multiple selves.
Kawika Guillermo is the author of Stamped: An Anti-travel Novel and All Flowers Bloom. Kawika Guillermo is the matrilineal name for Christopher B. Patterson, who is Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and the author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games and Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific.
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