El cuerpo de la marea negra: escritura y flujo en Mar es la tierra (10.24.23) | Latin American Studies

El cuerpo de la marea negra: escritura y flujo en Mar es la tierra (10.24.23)

Join us for a reading & conversation with Héctor Celis, author of Mar es la Tierra.

Published by Alfaguara this summer, Mar es la Tierra approaches themes such as violence, social disintegration and environmental ruins in Latin America. Mar es la Tierra’s narrative, according to the awarded Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, “muestra una imaginación desbordante, audaz, plena, con una escritura impecable que ubica a su autor en el centro del escenario narrativo actual. Un excelente narrador que no renuncia a internarse en los dilemas que atraviesan a toda prisa la complejidad de un presente que porta toda la extensión de su futuro”.

Moderated by: Francisco Quinteiro Pires, Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American and Brazilian Literature and Culture, Boston University

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 • 2 to 3:15 PM

Pardee School of Global Studies • 121 Bay State Road

This event will be in Spanish.

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