Africa and Beyond: Finding the Power in More Than One Story
| Date: | 07/08/2019, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
| Category: | Podiumsdiskussion |
| Location: | Welz-Haus/SCIAS, Klinikstraße 6, 97070 Würzburg |
| Organizer: | Schreibzentrum, Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber |
| Speaker: | Writer in Residence Yaa Gyasi, Yogita Goyal (University of California Los Angeles), Barbara Sponholz (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Mutiat Titilope Oladejo (University of Ibadan), Julien Bobineau (Neuphil. Institut/Romanistik) |
Stories have power: to name and shape realities, to move and motivate, but also to elide and simplify. Such power, as the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has compellingly argued, involves not just the ability to tell a story, but to make that story the definitive one about a person or a place. This panel discussion aims to discuss these dynamics as well as take on the challenge of conceiving Africa, African, and Black global experience beyond the single reductive story.
Further information: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/schreibzentrum/events/writer-in-residence/
Seating is limited, please RSVP to attend this event: schreibzentrum@uni-wuerzburg.de
