Third Night. September 27th: Jeanne Rosine Abomo (Washington University, Saint Louis). In conversation with Iliana Vásquez González.
Join us for an evening with Jeanne Rosine Abomo (Washington University, Saint Louis) in conversation with Ilianna Vásquez González (Yale University). Abomo and Vásquez will discuss Abomo’s past and current research on science fiction, utopic literature and film, African critical theory, and trans-continental connections, always inching towards the fundamental question, How do we anticipate the glorious future of postcolonial Africa? Whitherto Wakanda?
This session of Iberian Nights will take place in HQ 134.
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I B E R I A N N I G H T S
BOOK ONE
Literature and Survival
Thirteen evenings of conversation, Fall 2023
Iberian Connections — The Creative Forum — Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Co-sponsors:
Early Modern Studies Program – Medieval Studies Program –Department of Comparative Literature – Whitney Humanities Center
Description: This series is inspired by the spirit of Sheherazade, Dhuoda, Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena, the pequeñas mujeres rojas and so many others for whom the practice of literature –in many of its facets– was the matter of survival. They existed in circumstances of physical and sexual violence, of civil war, of racial discrimination, of isolation; they also lived in circumstances that cannot be properly expressed outside their own experiments with literature.
Our guests write from many directions, for many audiences, for many souls. Novels, reviews, the lives of afrodescendent people, dance, race, sexual violences, asylum briefs, and so many other forms of polyhedric writing that explore the limits of literature –and those of survival. They will be in conversation about their work, about their thought and, certainly, about the joys and frustrations of the literary worlds they inhabit.
5:30 to 7:30 pm each evening in HQ 276 (except where noted) and Zoom, light refreshments
