Chapter GUSEGG: Reading and Talk with Marjorie Agosín & Ruth Behar

Award winning authors Marjorie Agosin and Ruth Behar will join us for an afternoon of readings and discussions on Young Adult Literature and processing the past through writing. Agosin and Behar, whose families fled from the Nazis in World War II to South America, live in the US today and process their experiences of fleeing and searching for a new home in their young adult novels `Letters from Cuba´ (Behar) and `The Maps of Memory´ (Agosín).
We will start with the authors introducing their novels and reading from them, and then having a talk and Q&A on why Young Adult Literature can be interesting also for grown-ups, and how they as writers process their pasts through the writing of these texts.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 17th 2021, 5 p.m.

WHERE: online

Registration: To join, please sign up with dagmar.wallenstorfer(at)uni-graz.at

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