Loading ...| Feb |
| 10 |
| 4:30 pm |
Award-winning author Laura Lomas from Rutgers University will present “The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: José Martí and the Literature of the Latin American Diaspora in New York” on Wednesday, February 10 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The presentation, which takes place in the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion on the second-floor of the Otto G. Richter Library, is sponsored by the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries, the Center for the Humanities, the Program in Urban Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Lomas teaches literature of the United States and the Americas, Latina/o literature and culture, and the literature of migration in the English Department at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of the book Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities, which won the 2009 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. She is a founding member of the Rutgers Immigrant Rights Collective.
For more information, please call 305-284-4900 or e-mail [email protected]. A flyer for this event can be found here.
TITLE: Laura Lomas, Rutgers University presents: “The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: José Martí and the Literature of the Latin American Diaspora in New York.”
Join us for a presentation by award-winning author Laura Lomas from Rutgers University, who will be presenting: “The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: José Martí and the Literature of the Latin American Diaspora in New York.”
Laura Lomas teaches literature of the United States and the Americas, Latina/o literature and culture, and the literature of migration in the English Department at Rutgers University, Newark. Lomas is author of the book Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (Duke University Press, 2008), which won the 2009 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. She is a founding member of the Rutgers Immigrant Rights Collective.
The event is scheduled to start at 4:30pm and end at 6:00pm, at the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion located on the 2nd floor of the Otto G. Richter Library. This presentation is sponsored by the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries, the Center for the Humanities, the Program in Urban studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
For more information, please call (305)-284-4900, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. A flyer for this event can be found here.
