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Interview with Chilean-Canadian author Carmen Rodríguez conducted by Carolina Núñez-Puente
Published: 29.03.2025
In this interview, coordinated by Carolina Núñez-Puente, Carmen Rodríguez discusses important aspects of her literary oeuvre, such as: Pinochet's dictatorship; her exile in Canada; Truth Commissions in Chile and Canada; her identity as a writer; her writing process; her use of stylistic techniques, genres, and topics; her new literary work; her advice for young writers; and much more.
Professor Sam Durrant from Leeds University delivers seminar "'Livable Places’: Women, Land and Animism in Yvonne Vera’s 'The Stone Virgins'" at the Master's Degree in Advanced English Studies at the University of Alicante
Published: 15.01.2025
Yvonne Vera's novel The Stone Virgins is a female-centred and innovative take on the Matabeleland massacres that took place in post-independence Zimbabwe in the 1980s. The atrocities still cast a long shadow in contemporary Zimbabwean society. In his exploration of Vera's novel, Professor Durrant advocates a dis-enclosed form of animism as key to reconciliation in post-conflict societies.- lourdes.lopez@ua.es
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