Literature, History & Current Affairs Bryn Mawr College Lectures
Good Books II: Reading with the Experts BMC and MLSN are pleased to announce our 10th series of lectures. This series was created by Suzanne Spain, MLSN Board member and former Bryn Mawr College Associate Provost. Each class meets twice; during the first, dis- cuss the author’s life and the context in which she or he wrote, and discover aspects of the book to pay attention to. In the second meeting, the professor will lead a lively discussion about the book. Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 9/20 LH12049 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 weeks, $125
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges This very complete selection of Borges’s literary production ranges from Historia universal de la infamia(Universal History of Iniquity, 1935) to El libro de arena(The Book of Sand, 1975). Trace Borges’s uniqueness as a maker of intertextual fictions, highlighting and analyzing the most important texts.
Enrique Sacerio-Garí, Professor of Spanish, Bryn Mawr College
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 9/20 LH12051 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
Algerian Whiteby Assia Djebar Djebar narrates the lives of three friends killed in 1956 during the struggle for independence and reflects on the horrors of war and exile. She mean- ders through Algerian history, dealing with religious extremism and intellectual persecution. The New York Times deemed the novel “a requiem for a nation’s unfinished literature.”
Agnes Peysson-Zeiss, Prof of French, Bryn Mawr College
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 10/4 LH12056 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
Midaq Alleyby Naguib Mahfouz Mahfouz offers a vivid, intimate and emotionally moving description of social life in a small quarter in old Cairo during WWII. Follow the life trajectories, dreams, aspirations and frustrations of several men and women. The novel captures themes that are both specific to urban Egypt during the 1940s and universal. Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in 1988.
Farha Ghannam, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 10/18 LH12057 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
This fictional account depicts the European con- quest of Africa and the early phase of colonial rule, missionary acculturation efforts, merchant and in- dustrial capitalism and urbanization. The book cel- ebrates the vitality of the African civilizations that 19-century racism had denied.
Kalala Ngalamulume, Associate Prof of History and Africana Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Edmond A. Watters, former President, Montgomery County Community College
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 11/1 LH12058 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
To Liveby Yu Hua
Originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s 10 most influential books there, Yu Hua tells the story of one man’s transfor- mation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant.
Yonglin Jiang, Visiting Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 11/15 LH12059 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The lives of Indians and Indian immigrants in the U.S. are chronicled in these elegantly written short stories. Lahiri, the Indian-American author, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book.
Raili Roy, Assistant Director South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania
Mondays, 7 pm to 8 pm, starts 11/29 LH12060 Bryn Mawr College . . . . . 2 weeks, $25
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