Trabajos orgánicos: Special Lecture by Chilean author Diamela Eltit

Wednesday 20 May, 4:30-6pm Humanities Building - H2.45 All welcome

Special Lecture

Trabajos org�nicos A talk by Chilean writer

Diamela Eltit Sim�n Bol�var Professor 2014-15 University of Cambridge

An award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and critic, Diamela Eltit published her first texts during the dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) while becoming involved in visual arts and diverse modes of performance as a founding member of the renowned CADA group. Her novels, some highly experimental and others more accessible in narrative style, always bring provocative perspectives to bear on issues such as dictatorship, disappearance, and state terror; poverty, neoliberal capitalism, and marginalization; gender and sexuality; national identity, indigenous cultures, and racism. Eltit is also an important critic in the field of Latin American literature and has lectured at many institutions in the US and Latin America.

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