A Book Reading and Conversation
Speaker:
Sean Meighoo, Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Emory University
Moderator:
Alvin K. Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
In Postcolonial Derrida, Sean Meighoo argues that Derrida’s philosophical work offers us an incisive engagement with the issues of colonialism, race, migration, and diaspora that distinguish postcolonial theory as such. Critically reading some of Derrida’s most famous texts in addition to some of his lesser-known ones, Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with a diverse range of anticolonial and postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia as well as African American and French feminist thinkers and writers including Toni Morrison, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Hélène Cixous, V.S. Naipaul, Nelson Mandela, M.K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sean Meighoo is Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Emory University. He is author of The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales (Columbia UP, 2016) and Postcolonial Derrida (Edinburgh UP, 2026). Meighoo’s work has also appeared in the journals Small Axe, Cultural Critique, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Humanimalia, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Journal of World Philosophies, and Derrida Today, as well as in the volumes Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (Indiana UP, 2001) and Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (Columbia UP, 2015).
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