THE CENTER FOR “RACE,” CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
COLLOQUIA SERIES A Conversation With ÁLVARO ENRIGUE
Enrigue will discuss his forthcoming book, Now I Surrender and That’s All (to be published in English in 2021). It was published in Spanish as Ahora me rindo y eso es todo in 2018. This novel starts with a vindication of writing and the construction of a landscape. That landscape is borderline between Mexico and the United States. Characters from the past and the present will make an appearance -- missionaries, settlers, the Indians of tribes already civilized, or even wild. A woman, Camila, flees through the desert, and a man, Lieutenant Colonel José María Zuloaga, pursues Indians who have stolen cattle in that desert. Finally, the myth of Geronimo, the rebel Apache and writer, travels through these places in search of the traces of history. These and other characters will come together in this mestizo narrative -- a sum of history, epic, legend and western metaliterature that reflects on how the past permeates the present, and how it is reconstructed and novelized. Álvaro Enrigue is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University, and an award-winning Mexican novelist. He is the author of six novels, three books of short stories, and one book of essays, all translated into multiple languages.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Roosevelt Hall 203, South Campus Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please call 516-463-6585 or email RaceCultureSocialJustice@hofstra.edu