Merlinda Bobis Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack, award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award), and in her new poetry book Accidents of Composition (Spinifex 2017). Thursday October 12 th , 2017 193 Humanities 4:00pm-6:00pm Merlinda responds to the growing climate of conflict in our compromised planet. She hopes that in the border, there could be accidents of kindness. For those walking to the border for dear life, and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance Please have no fear and Take this offered hand Your thirst, your thirst Is my only affliction —Locust Girl. A Lovesong Sponsored by the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, The Department of Gender Studies and The Center for the Study of Women
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Merlinda Bobis Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack, award-winning poet,
novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the
intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead
Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award), and in her new poetry
book Accidents of Composition (Spinifex 2017).
Thursday October 12th, 2017
193 Humanities
4:00pm-6:00pm
Merlinda responds to the growing climate of conflict in our compromised planet. She hopes that in the
border, there could be accidents of kindness.
For those walking to the border for dear life,
and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance
Please have no fear and Take this offered hand Your thirst, your thirst
Is my only affliction
—Locust Girl. A Lovesong
Sponsored by the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies,
The Department of Gender Studies and The Center for the Study of Women
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