AWP Latine Writers: Across Borders
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Across Borders: Latine Writers Respond to the Crackdown on Immigration
Date and time: Thursday, March 27
AWP Latine Writers
Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Session Code: T175
Description:
AWP Latine writers read original pieces to respond to the recent immigration wave from South America. This session proposes that literature, specifically fiction and hybrid genres, illuminates how labeling the movement as a “crisis” economically manages and attacks one specific population: Spanish-speaking from the South of the Americas. We then reveal a long literary, geopolitical, racial, mythical, and classed connection between Latin America and the US.
Speakers:
Presenters: Giannina Braschi, Mónica-Ramón Ríos, Carlos Labbé, Frederick Luis Aldama
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Mónica Ramón Ríos
(Santiago de Chile, 1978) es escritora, académica y editora. Escribe sobre experiencias migratorias, cine, literatura de mujeres, archivos decoloniales, objetos perdidos y sexualidad. Su ficción trabaja con los límites de la identidad y las poéticas radicales. “Segundos” (2010) toma como punto de partida el suicidio de dos jóvenes estrellas a fines de los noventa en Chile para escuchar las voces de los que perdieron en la transa económica de los noventa. “Alias el Rocío” (2014) y “Alias el Rucio” (2015) son novelas gemelas, con pequeñas variaciones, sobre las formas de narrar los cuerpos desaparecidos, muertos y tachados de la historia local. Cuentos suyos han aparecido en varias antologías y revistas, en sus idiomas originales y en traducción. También publico notas sobre libros, crítica de cine y columnas en revistas de Latinoamérica. En 2008 creó, junto a Carlos Labbé, Sangría Editora.
Carlos Labbé
(Santiago de Chile, 1977) es escritor, músico, guionista, crítico y editor. Tiene el título de magíster en Letras con una tesis sobre Roberto Bolaño. Su primera novela Libro de plumas (Ediciones B, 2004) lo convirtió en uno de los nuevos referentes de la literatura chilena.
Giannina Braschi
Braschi is the author of PUTINOIKA. She writes cross-genre literature and Latinx philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. Her books include El imperio de los sueños/Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), and United States of Banana (2011). Her latest project is titled Putinoika. She has published on Cervantes, Garcilaso, Machado, Lorca, and Bécquer. Her radical texts have been adapted to other genres spanning theater, chamber music, graphic novel, painting, photography, artist book, sculpture, industrial design, and urban planning. With a Ph.D. from SUNY, Stony Brook, she taught Hispanic Literatures at Rutgers, Colgate, and CUNY. She won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY Foundation for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Puerto Rican Institute for Culture, PEN America, Cambio 16 in Spain, and the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). Her life’s work is the subject of Poets Philosophers Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer. Born in San Juan, Braschi lives in New York.
Frederick Luis Aldama
Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin and holds an adjunct University Distinguished Professor appointment at Ohio State University. Aldama is the recipient of the 2019 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring, the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award, and an Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Work. He has authored and edited more than forty books, including Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (University of Arizona Press, 2018), as well as works on Latinx formalist poetry, the Latinx vanguard, and Latinx queer literature. Aldama is the author of numerous fictional works, such as Con Papá / With Papá (The Ohio State University Press, 2022); The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (The Ohio State University Press, 2020); and Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands (University of Arizona Press, 2017). He is the editor of Latinographix, a series at The Ohio State University Press that publishes Latinx graphic fiction and nonfiction.