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SUMMARY:Ambai at the Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Breaking Out: Women and Girls on Their Own Terms \nMona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls)\, Tamil writer Ambai (A Kitchen in the Corner of the House)\, and Téa Obreht (Inland) bring to life strong female voices of the past and present. From Eltahaway’s powerful #MeToo manifesto to Obreht’s reimagining the American West with a tale of an unflinching frontierswoman to Ambai’s courageous characters grappling with motherhood\, self-assertion and sexuality – all three writers address issues of confinement and liberation in the face of larger cultural and historical forces. \nModerated by Rivka Galchen \n  \nC.S. Lakshmi\, writing under the pseudonym of Ambai\, is a feminist Tamil writer. She was born in 1944 in Tamil Nadu\, and grew up in Bangalore and Mumbai. She received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications include In a Forest\, A Deer\, Fish in a Dwindling Lake\, A Meeting on the Andheri Overbridge\, The Purple Sea\, and A Night with a Black Spider and articles in newspapers such as The Hindu\, The Times of India\, and Political Weekly. Her short stories portray the reality of the lives of women\, communicating their silence through words. She has worked in research projects such as:The Face Behind the Mask: Women in Tamil Literature.  In 1988\, Lakshmi founded SPARROW (Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women) a non-governmental organization for documenting and archiving the work of female writers and artists. She is currently a member of the University of Michigan’s Global Feminisms Project. \n\nA Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. \nAmbai’s narrators are daring and courageous\, stretching and reinventing their homes\, marriages\, and worlds. With each story\, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters\, journal entries\, and notes\, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood\, sexuality\, and the liberating\, in turn inhibiting\, contours of the body. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn one story\, a young girl is frozen in terror\, waiting to tell mother that she’s just gotten her period. She thinks\, “I need my mother. My heart yearns for her…” Fueled by such longing\, each of Ambai’s characters seek a freer form of language and expression in Tamil. In another\, a yellow fish flits into the ocean with an arrogant snort – at one moment on the brink of death and in the next\, freely merging with the ocean’s blue-grey depths.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/ambai-on-breaking-out-women-and-girls-on-their-own-terms/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Borough Hall Media Room\, 209 Joralemon St\, Brooklyn\, NY
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SUMMARY:Scholastique Mukasonga at the Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Looking Back: Memoir\, Auto-Fiction and the Worlds that Shape Us \nWith Scholastique Mukasonga\, Aleksandar Hemon\, and Amit Chaudhuri. Moderated by Amitava Kumar. \nBorn in Rwanda in 1956\, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960\, her family was displaced to the polluted and under-developed Bugesera district of Rwanda. Mukasonga was later forced to leave the school of social work in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992\, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath\, Mukasonga learned that 27 of her family members had been massacred. Twelve years later\, Gallimard published her autobiographical account Inyenzi ou les Cafards\, which marked Mukasonga’s entry into literature. This was followed by the publication of La femme aux pieds nus in 2008 and L’Iguifou in 2010\, both widely praised. Her first novel\, Notre-Dame du Nil\, won the Ahmadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012\, as well as the 2013 Océans France Ô prize\, and the 2014 French Voices Award\, and was shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary award.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/scholastique-mukasonga-at-the-brooklyn-book-festival-3/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Borough Hall Media Room\, 209 Joralemon St\, Brooklyn\, NY
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