LATINX SPEAKER SERIES – MAIA GIL’ADÍ – Doom Patterns: Violence and Pleasure in Latinx Speculations

Date

February 2, 2023

Time

3:10 pm – 5:00 pm

Location

403 Kent Hall

 

Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines representations of violence—from the sweeping scale of global imperialism to the close intimacy of domestic violence—in Latinx literature. Putting portrayals of destruction and pain in prose fiction into conversation with aesthetic pleasure, she argues that these two figurations collaborate in the cultural production of Latinx literature and latinidad.

Feb 2nd, 2023, Thursday, 3:10-5 PM