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Saturday, October 6 • 4:00pm - 5:20pm
Resistant Narratives / Resisting Narrative

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What does it mean to write resistance? How can a book / fiction / essay / poem / performance be a site of refusal and possibility? Contemporary writers have long created literary spaces of possibility and resistance, taking the status of outsider and expanding the project of literature. Resistant narratives respond to and rewrite the stories/ideas/constraints we have received from a culture that wishes to reduce and limit our very souls. To become an artist is to write oneself back into being. A book might be a place where the individual remakes the world. In this panel which will include reading, discussion, and performance, we will consider writing as political resistance, a tool to counter the limitations of cultural, societal and familial expectation.
Speakers
avatar for Jessica Anne

Jessica Anne

Jessica Anne is the author of A Manual For Nothing (Noemi Press), she's also an alumna of The Neo-Futurist ensemble. Anne edits Nonfiction for MAKE Literary Magazine, and serves as an artistic director for MAKE Magazine Productions' biannual Lit & Luz Festival, a celebration of literature... Read More →
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Sydni Chiles

Sydni Chiles is a person, black and queer, existing on the Southside of Chicago with an MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University. She’s also the great great niece of Lorraine Hansberry who, like her, is a writer from the South Side, an activist and quite literallly an “undocumented... Read More →
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Amanda Goldblatt

Amanda Goldblatt lives in Chicago, where she teaches creative writing at Northeastern Illinois University. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in NOON, Diagram, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. She is a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Fellow. Hard Mouth, her debut novel, is forthcoming... Read More →
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Suzanne Scanlon

Writer
Suzanne Scanlon is the author of two books, Promising Young Women (Dorothy, 2012) and Her Thirty-Seventh Year, An Index (Noemi, 2015). Her Thirty-Seventh Year was recently featured in a show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and a Swedish translation was published in late... Read More →

Saturday October 6, 2018 4:00pm - 5:20pm EDT
136 DeBartolo Hall
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