Loosing Mother's Tongue

This fall, the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and the Department of English, Foreign Languages & Literatures celebrates contemporary fiction writers. Taking a cue from recent political events and historical legacies of colonialism, the Losing Mother Tongue Series, invites scholars and writers to consider the idea of the mother as a trope for imagining new pathways into rethinking politics, selfhood, language, social oppression and hegemony. Can the mother be considered a figure for thinking society and politics otherwise? Does equality and social justice begin with the figurative mother, as several of Octavia Butler’s Afro-futuristic works seem to suggest, among that of other famous writers? These talks begin Friday, November 5th, and explore responses to these questions and many others.

Guest Speakers

Dr. Julie Iromuanya, Dr. Wandeka Gayle and Dr. Ivelisse Rodriguez

Moderators

Dr. Cole Lavalais and Dr. Ana Baez

See you there!