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The
University of Rhode Island Multicultural Center
74 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401-874-2851
Fax: 401-874-5952
Email:
mcc1@etal.uri.edu |
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Lecture
on Multiculturalism 2006
Professor
Wideman: Reading from
"Brothers and Keepers" |
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The
12th Annual Lecture on Multiculturalism
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
7:30pm-9:30pm
Chafee Auditorium, Room 271
[Campus Flyer] [URI
Press Release]
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The
nation’s second African-American to receive a
Rhodes Scholarship, John Edgar Wideman has built
a career as one of the nation’s foremost
creative writers. The third lecturer in the
series to receive a prestigious MacArthur
Foundation “genius grant”, he was the first
writer to twice earn the PEN/Faulkner Award for
Fiction, winning for the novel Sent for You
Yesterday (1985) and Philadelphia Fire (1991).
His novel The Cattle Killing (1996) garnered for
him that year’s James Fenimore Cooper Award for
historical fiction. His memoirs Brothers and
Keepers (1984), Fatheralong: A Meditation on
Fathers and Sons (1994), and Hoop
Roots (2001)
remind us that the memoir can still retain
credibility in a time of controversy about the
genre. Exploring his working-class roots in
Brothers and Keepers, he provides insights on
race, class, community and identity, while
comparing the divergent trajectories of his own
life with that of his brother, convicted and
sentenced to life for a murder committed during
a robbery. |
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Last updated:
02/22/2006
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