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SUMMARY:Marjorie Agosin - Beloved Memory: A Writer's Journey Through Jewish Latin America
DESCRIPTION:
 <strong>Library Colloquia Series<br />\n
 Marjorie 
 Agosin<br />\n
 <br />\n
 Beloved Memory: A Writer's 
 Journey Through Jewish Latin America</strong><br 
 />\n
 <br />\n
 Tuesday, November 30, 
 7:00 pm<br />\n
 North Conference Room (W449)<br 
 />\n
 Admission is free<br />\n
 <br />\n
 In this 
 presentation Chilean poet and activist Marjorie 
 Agosin will explore what it means to be 
 a Jewish Latin American writer living in the 
 USA and writing in Spanish. Honored for her work 
 on human rights by the United Nations, Agosin 
 will also address how historical and personal 
 memory are deeply intertwined in her works 
 as a poet.<br />\n
 <br />\n
 Marjorie Agosin 
 is a Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College 
 and author of many volumes of poetry, essays, 
 and two memoirs, including:<br />\n
 <br />\n
 <ul><li>Cartographies: 
 Meditations on Travel 
 (2004)</li>\n
 <li>Memory, Oblivion and Jewish 
 Culture in Latin America (2005)</li>\n
     <li> 
 Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love : the 
 Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994 (2008)</li></ul>\n
 <br 
 />\n
 She is the winner of the 
 Letras de Oro Prize and the Latino Literature 
 Prize.<br />\n
 <br />\n
 Co-sponsors: MSU Libraries 
 and MSU's Jewish Studies Program, Global 
 Studies in the Arts and Humanities Program, 
 Center for Gender in Global Context, Center 
 for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and 
 the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.lib.msu.edu/features/?e=187\n
LOCATION:Main Library, North Conference Room (W449)
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