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This IS Women’s Fiction: Asian & Asian American Women & the Global Narrative
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
From Tiananmen Square to the London Bombings to Duterte’s dictatorship in the Philippines to the power of Fake News, four women writers’ work reshapes the narrative of contemporary event as it gels into history. Through their novels that deal with the big issues—representation, surveillance, legacy, colonialism, resistance—the work of these award-winning Asian women is working to transfigure the discourse through the political novel as it expands to include diverse, articulate voices.
Participants
Catherine Ciepiela is a scholar and translator of Russian poetry who teaches at Amherst College. Her main interests are Russian modernism, especially the writing of Marina Tsvetaeva, and contemporary Russian poetry. She recently finished translating a book of hybrid essays by Polina Barskova.
Sabina Murray is the author of the novels The Human Zoo, Valiant Gentlemen, Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, and Slow Burn and two short story collections, the Pen/Faulkner Award winning The Caprices and Tales of the New World. She has received Guggenheim and an NEA. She teaches at UMass Amherst.
Gina Apostol's last novels, Insurrecto and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, explore the Philippine revolutions against America and Spain. Her third novel, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN/Open Book Award. Her first two novels won the Juan Laya Prize (Philippine National Book Award).
Tracy O'Neill is the author of the novels The Hopeful and Quotients. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a 2012 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, her work has appeared in Granta, VQR, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, and the New York Times.
Meng Jin’s novel Little Gods was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award and LA Times First Fiction Prize and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. A Kundiman fellow, she has short prose appearing in Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere.
