S213. Narratives of Immigration and Displacement

Liberty Salon N, O, & P, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Saturday, February 11, 2017
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Displacement, exile, and immigration are compelling motifs in literature, but are not always glorious to experience. Our panel features poets, essayists, and fiction writers from Kenya, Croatia, Hong Kong, Nepal, and the US East Coast who have migrated out of choice or exile to find new homes in/within the United States. Panelists explore the tropes of “us” and “them,” histories and boundaries, assimilations and identities, and languages and voices that create our narratives and aesthetic choices.


Participants

Moderator:

Ranjan Adiga is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, and 34th Parallel, among others. His upcoming story collection explores the nature of desire and tradition in changing societies of Kathmandu, Nepal. He teaches creative writing at Westminster College.

M Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novels King of the Worlds and Big in Japan: A Hungry Ghost Story, and the novella Jellyfish Dreams. He currently teaches in Hawaii.

David N. Odhiambo is the author of three novels: diss/ed banded nation, Kipligat's Chance, and The Reverend's Apprentice. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu.

Snezana Zabic is the author of the short story collection In a Lifetime, Po(jest)zija/Po(eat)ry (with Ivana Percl), and the memoir Broken Records. Her work appears in anthologies Discursive Bodies of Poetry and Wreckage of Reason 2: Back to the Drawing Board. She edits Packingtown Review.

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