Derrilyn Morrison will be presenting her paper “Caribbean Impulse in Lilian Allen’s Psychic Unrest” on Monday, September 24, 2007, from 3-4PM in room 112 in the Language Lab. Please consider joining us—there will be snacks, sodas, lively discussion (“workshopping”) and such, as always. For more information, contact Karmen Lenz (karmen.lenz@maconstate.edu).

Caribbean Impulse in Lilian Allen”s Psychic Unrest
This paper presents a discussion of Lilian Allen’s dub poetry, focusing on language as performance. Emerging out of a cultural legacy of oppression and displacement, Allen’s dub poetry participates in the poetic project of transforming the Canadian literary landscape, re-shaping it, as a form of cultural resistance. The paper thus takes a look at Allen’s poetry as a Caribbean Canadian prototype, a body of poetry creating a multiple framework of immigrant experiences.