To prepare for Shange’s visit, you should read
- Ntozake Shange, From Okra to Greens: A Different Kinda Love Story in A Daughter’s Geography
- Edouard Glissant, excerpts from Caribbean Discourse and A Poetics of Relation
- SKIM Spyra, Ania. “Ntozake Shange’s Multilingual Poetics of Relation.” Contemporary Literature 54.4 (2013): 785–809.
In the comments, please put your questions and let me know if you will CANNOT stay for the dinner or the Friday session.
Here’s our schedule:
Thursday, 22 October–Sulzburger, North Tower
- 4:10-6pm Session with Shannon Miller–this is a hands-on workshop using materials from the Ntozake Shange collection. (Ntozake will be in attendance)
- 6:00-7:30 Dinner and conversation with Ntozake, From Okra to Greens (we are supplying water. If you want something livelier, bring it with you.)
Friday, 23 October–Barnard Hall 101 (BCRW conference room)
- 10:00am – noon, Discussion with Ntozake Shange (coffee and doughnuts)
- we’ll start with Sydney asking questions about movement and then it will be open