Empathy and the Postcolonial

This panel invites papers that explore the fraught relationship between postcolonialism and the discourse of empathy. How do postcolonial texts engage with empathy without undermining otherness? Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 10 March 2019

Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts (slal@umass.edu )