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Presentation in Canton to focus on Nicaraguan poet

Posted 10/20/15

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will sponsor a presentation by British professor Pete Hulme, who will focus on Nicaragua’s Salomón de la Selva at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Griffiths Arts …

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Presentation in Canton to focus on Nicaraguan poet

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will sponsor a presentation by British professor Pete Hulme, who will focus on Nicaragua’s Salomón de la Selva at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Griffiths Arts Center, room 123.

His presentation, “The Rising of the Universal Moon: A Nicaraguan Poet in New York,” will discuss de la Selva (1893-1958) who, in the years prior to World War I, lived in New York City and collaborated closely with many well-known writers of his time, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell and Jeanne Robert Foster, who was born in the Adirondacks. De la Selva is part of Hulme’s current research on the relationships between Hispanic and Anglo writers in New York City during the early twentieth century.

Hulme is a professor in literature at the University of Essex and is the author of Cuba's Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente (2011) and coeditor of Postcolonial Film: History, Empire and Resistance (2014) as well as 'The Tempest' and its Travels. Hulme is one of the founders of The Essex Sociology of Literature Project and has written extensively as a postcolonial theorist on the literature, history and anthropology of the Caribbean.

His visit is being sponsored by St. Lawrence University’s Department of Modern Languages with support from Caribbean and Latin American studies and the departments of English and Global Studies. Info: 229-5154.