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Ethics Around the Table: Ariana Vigil
November 9, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the Parr Center for an Ethics Around the Table with Dr. Ariana Vigil. Dr. Vigil conducts research and teaching in the field Latina/o literature, focusing on issues of activism, transnationalism, and gender and sexuality. Other areas of interest include: Central American-American Studies and Jewish Latina/o studies. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, Understanding Francisco Goldman is an in-depth look at the major works by one of the leading U.S. Latino novelists. The second project, tentatively titled Gender and Journalism in U.S. Latina/o Literature, examines the role and representation of mass media in contemporary U.S. Latina/o literature.
Dr. Vigil is the author of War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production, published by Rutgers University Press (2014). War Echoes examines U.S. Latina/o responses to military intervention in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Iraq. The work joins an explicit critique of U.S. imperialism with a U.S.-specific exploration of the role and function of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language, and citizenship in order to understand and underscore the importance of identity in the articulation and deployment of transnational identities and organizations. While war narratives typically consider only the writings and experiences of combat veterans, War Echoes offers a more complex portrayal of what we term “war” and is essential to understanding and appreciating the various ways in which late 20th century and early 21st century Latina/o literatures take up issues of violence. This book is uniquely situated on the border between American and Latin American studies and strives to enact a transnational feminist praxis in its incorporation of the voices of subjects located both within and without the U.S. nation-state and in its attention to the work of both authors and activists.
This event is free & open to all; registration is kindly required. Lunch will be provided!