Writing the Transdiasporic Experience - Free
Sunday, October 4, 2009 / 2-4 p.m
685 North Milwaukee Ave.
2-4 p.m
Woman Made Gallery
685 N Milwaukee Ave
READING: Writing the Transdiasporic Experience - Free
Hosted by Nina Corwin
readers will include:
Susan Azar Porterfield
Beatriz Badikian-Gartler
Susanna Lang
Gwendolyn Mitchell
Pamela Garvey
Angela Torres
Mirela Ramona Ciupag
Sharmili Majmudar.
In addition Pritika Chowdhry will read excerpts introducing the theme.
Themes include cultural memory, historical trauma, displacement and its causes (invasion, colonialization, political oppression, enslavement and genocide; exile) border crossing, migration, multi-ethnicity and the outsider or refugee experience.
