[Vwoolf] Leonard Woolf
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Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the
Jungle (1913) Saturday 9 March 2013
Venue: Haldane
Room, Wolfson College, Oxford. OX2
6UD.
The Oxford Centre for
Life-Writing at Wolfson College is delighted to
host this workshop marking the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf’s
path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, The Village in the Jungle. Woolf’s novel (the first of only two) is a
leading yet often overlooked modernist document and is increasingly recognized
as an extraordinarily far-sighted colonial text, an oblique record of his years
as a colonial officer in Ceylon (1904-11). It has also become a foundational novel in the Sri
Lankan literary canon. The workshop will consider Woolf’s radical
colonialist legacy, and will explore the relationship
of The Village in the
Jungle to his later oeuvre
of economic theory and political commentary, as well as to the field of
post/colonial and empire writing more broadly. We will be interested, too, in
the many intertextual links running between the 1910s work of Virginia Woolf,
Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster and others of and related to
the Bloomsbury group, and
that of Leonard Woolf, and consider some of the intersections between their
works and their lives.
Please address any queries about the symposium to Dominic Davies by
emailing leonard.woolf.symposium at gmail.com
Workshop convenor: Professor Elleke
Boehmer
Workshop facilitator: Dominic
Davies
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
9:30-10:00:
Registration
10-11:15: Opening Keynote
Chandani Lokuge (Monash
University, Australia)
‘Indigenous Tradition and the
Western Imagination:
Leonard Woolf's The Village in
the Jungle’
11:15-11:30:
Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:45: The Village in
the Jungle Roundtable
A discussion of key passages
from Leonard (and possibly Virginia) Woolf, led by
Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), Hermione Lee (Oxford), Susheila Nasta (OU),
Nisha Manocha (Wolfson)
Anna Snaith (KCL), David Trotter (Cambridge)
tbc
The readings will be circulated
to all participants in advance.
12:45-1:45: Lunch
1:45-3:15: Panel discussion: ‘Perceptions of the
Jungle’
Chair: Nicola Robinson (York)
Ruvani
Ranasinha (KCL)
'The Village in the Jungle then
and now/here and there'
Susan Jones (St
Hilda’s, Oxford)
‘Visual and kinaesthetic
presentations of the jungle’
Dominic Davies (St
Anne’s, Oxford)
'Structural Violence and
Violence against Structures in The Village in the
Jungle'
Priyasha Mukhopadyay (Wolfson College, Oxford)
‘"Their greasy little notebooks":
Debt and the Headman in The Village in the Jungle’
3:15-3:30: Tea/Coffee
3:30-4:45: Closing Plenary
Victoria Glendinning (biographer
of Leonard Woolf)
Introduced by Hermione Lee
(biographer of Virginia Woolf)
‘The Village in the Jungle as
colonial memoir: Woolf writing home’
5:00-6:00: Writers reading
Roshi
Fernando
Roma
Tearne
OCLW offers sincere thanks to
the Wolfson South Asia cluster for its support of the writers’
panel.
In order to register please fill out
the form below and return to: leonard.woolf.symposium at gmail.com.
Symposium:
Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle
Oxford Centre
for Life-Writing
Saturday 9th March
2013
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