18133: Rice: Wednesday, February 18: DANY LAFERRIERE featured at next Exodus and Genesis: Haitian Writers in North America at NYU (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Laura Rice <laura.rice@nyu.edu>


Exodus and Genesis: Haitian Writers in North America

This series on Haitian writers in North America will feature readings and
discussions in English by practitioners working in the continent.  These
poets and novelists are the purveyors of a new kind of literature of
profound significance to Haiti and the Diaspora.  No longer bound by narrow
nationalist conventions that historically constrained literary production,
these works have emerged newly animated by an insistence on the imaginative
interrogation of such subjects as race, gender, class, and national
identity.  While Haiti serves as the national site of creative inquiry, the
works of these authors exceeds those borders to treat the complex geography
of the New World. Indeed, this cohort of writers represents an important
part of Haiti’s new trans-national community.

Dany Laferriere

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 6:30 pm

Lipton Auditorium
D’Agostino Hall
New York University
110 W. 3rd Street (between Sullivan and MacDougal Streets)
New York, NY

His first novel How To Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired was turned
in a highly regarded film.  He has since completed ten novels of his
'American Autobiography' of which the most prominent titles in English
translation are An Aroma of Coffee, The Cry of Maddened Birds and Down Among
the Dead Men.  He is also a well-known television producer in Quebec where
he now lives.

This event is FREE and open to the public, but seating is limited.  RSVP at
212-998-2130.

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Laura Rice
Associate Director
Institute of African-American Affairs
New York University
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New York University has been a vibrant cultural community center dedicated
to research, documentation, and the celebration of Black culture and
creative expressions. Both the Institute and its affiliate, the NYU Africana
Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts and Science, are committed to the
study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and
Black Urban Studies. These distinct organizations share staff and
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