Poetics of Displacement: Latin American Emigré Writers and the Creative Imagination Lecture Series

Thursday, January 13, 2011 to Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Global Hispanism series will focus on the relationship between the creative writing process and the experience of migration, displacement and translocation in Latin American writers living in the U.S.

Talks:

January 13, 2011: "The Adventures of the Errant Writer and the Strange Case of the Accented Life and the Post-Mother Language Open-Ended Dilemma"
Cristina Rivera-Garza, University of CAlifornia at San Diego

February 3, 2011: "La música de las anomalías"
Sergio Chejfec, Argentine writer

February 17, 2011: "Epicentro, and Other Central Americans Within the Center: The Emergence of a New Central American-American Literature"
Arturo Arias, University of Texas at Austin

March 17, 2011: "Lengua Mojada"
Sergio Ramirez, Latin American writer

April 07, 2011: "Dislocated Memory and the Urge to Return"
Sylvia Molloy, New York University, Argentine novelist

April 14, 2011: "She Came From Afar: Tango Women and the Poetics of Exile"
Alicia Borinski, Boston University