Can someone forward this eflyer out to the Asian American Artists Collective-
Chicago as well as anyother listserve you feel is relevant. If anybody would
like the poster document to print and duplicate/ditribute, let me know.
thank you
alpen
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The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of
Chicago Proudly Presents:
AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST CHANG-RAE LEE
DATE: Thursday, November 13, 2003
TIME: 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: International House, Assembly Hall, 1414 East 59th Street,
Chicago.
The event is free and open to the public
The New Yorker recently named Chang-rae Lee one of the "Twenty Best Fiction
Writers Under Forty.� His first two novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life,
won a host of literary honors, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for Best First
Novel, the American Book Award, QPB�s New Voices Award, the Asian-American
Literary Award, the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Gustavus Myers
Outstanding Book Award.
Lee takes up the themes of cultural alienation, fragmented identity, and
assimilation in much of his work. A Gesture Life is a story about an elderly
immigrant born in Korea but raised in Japan who served as a medic in the
Japanese army during World War II treating Korean "comfort women." The main
character of Native Speaker, a Korean immigrant, struggles to become a �true
American,� a �native speaker." Chang-rae Lee's new novel, Aloft, will be
released by Riverhead Books March 2004.
This event is co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program.
The other University of Chicago event co-sponsors are the Asian/Asian American
Mentorship Program, the Asian Pacific American Graduate Student Collective, the
Korean Student Organization, Minorities in Public Policy Student Association,
MOIM @ the KILMOK, and the PanAsian Solidarity Coalition. Asian American
Students United at Northwestern University and Asian Social Network
(www.asiansocialnetwork.com) are off-campus co-sponsors. For additional
information contact the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at
(773) 702-8063 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact the
International House Office of Programs and Special Events in advance at (773)
753-2274 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Their website is
www.ihouse.uchicago.edu.
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