The Indigenous Peoples’ Literature and History Group
Contemporary Native American Fiction
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYJoin the Indigenous Studies Literature and History Group for a 10-week study of three award-winning contemporary Native American novelists—Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich’s and Sherman Alexie.
African Literature: Colonialism, Liberation, Disillusionment
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWith the reading of novels by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal), Tayeb Salih (Sudan), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) and Ngugu wa Thiong’o (Kenya), we examine four different areas of Africa as the peoples there emerge from European colonization. We witness the struggles of workers on strike before their full independence, anti-colonial resistance spanning from Mount Kenya to academic circles in London. As nations become independent we discover new and recycled forms of oppression, exploitation and war. In the midst of disillusionment, we see resolve and signs of what remains possible.