Dear Colleagues,
(one last try!)
Please find below information on an event to be held as part of the new Minority Identities: Rights and Representation research theme at the University of Reading, on Wednesday 9th February 2011. The award-winning author Thomas Glave will speak on his ground-breaking anthology 'Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles' (2008).
Wednesday 9th February 2011 • 5.00pm in Room 74, HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences building) • Whiteknights Campus
All are welcome to this free event.
For further information, contact: Alison Donnell • 0118 378 7837 • [log in to unmask]
Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on issues of social justice, and helped found the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG, www.jflag.org).
His other literary works include:
· 'The Torturer’s Wife' (2008)
· 'Words To Our Now: Imagination and Dissent' (2005)
· 'Whose Song? And Other Stories' (2000)
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