Event
Sharad Chari: the Afrofuturism of Moby-Dick
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Fee:
Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 37.806911, -122.430390
San Francisco Maritime Research Center Fort Mason Center Building E San Francisco, CA 94123
Dates & Times
Date:
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Time:
7:00 PM
Duration:
2 hours
Type of Event
Cultural/Craft Demonstration
Partner Program
Talk
Thu, October 13, 2022 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Description
Is Moby-Dick an American book? Is its narrator ("Call me Ishmael") white? What is the 'whiteness of the whale' that is the object of furious pursuit by a captain who has clearly lost his mind? This presentation approaches these questions through a remarkable artist, Ellen Gallagher, who paints in the tradition of the 'scrimshaw,' the art of whalers, and who sees Moby-Dick an Afrofuturist work.
Sharad Chari is a Geographer who teaches at UC Berkeley and writes about the country and the city, apartheid and its aftermath, Black queer biography, and imperial oceanics, in India, South Africa and the Southern African Indian Ocean. He is also intrigued by the encyclopedic, enigmatic Moby-Dick.
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