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Fanon: The Novel.




Institute of African American Affairs


at New York University
presents


FANON


the Novel, by


John Edgar Wideman


Followed by:


Édouard Glissant


in conversation with John Edgar Wideman


Tuesday, April 29, 2008


6:30 - 8:00 pm



New York University


19 University Place, Rm 102, NY, NY


(between East 8th St. & Waverly Place)


Space is limited. Please RSVP at 212-998-IAAA (4222)


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JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than eighteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His memoir Brothers and Keepers received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoir Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award. Wideman is on the faculty of the Africana Studies Department of Brown University. Fanon, Wideman’s first novel in a decade, weaves together a postmodern pastiche of fiction, biography, history, politics, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of The Wretched of the Earth.



ÉDOUARD GLISSANT has been a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature and is a distinguished professor in the Ph.D. program in French at The Graduate Center/CUNY. One of the most prominent writers from the Caribbean and the Francophone world, he is the author of nine volumes of poetry, eight novels, several essays and works of literary criticism.

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