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Women’s Work: Scholastique Mukasonga at the PEN World Voices Festival
May 13, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Scholastique Mukasonga belongs to a group of pioneering authors who have broken the silence and share stories of survival. Genocide in Rwanda displaced Scholastique and her family, forcing them to flee their home, first to Burundi and later to France. She has shared these experiences and captured readers through both her memoirs, Cockroaches and Barefoot Woman, as well as her novel, Our Lady of the Nile.
On May 13, Scholastique will join author Randa Jarrar in conversation titled, “Women’s Work,” moderated by Associate Professor of French and Italian and American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, Edwin Hill. The authors will share their experience writing womanhood—the work of mothers and daughters across time and place facing genocide, tradition, and memory.
Free with RSVP.