THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 / 4:30PM
STERN LOUNGE- Austin 217
“Birthmark: Divided Vision & the Coming of Perspective”
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and Department of English
Professor STEPHEN CLINGMAN will read from Birthmark (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), a memoir of divided vision in the divided world of apartheid South Africa. When Stephen was two, he underwent an operation to remove a birthmark under his right eye. The operation failed, and the birthmark returned. Clingman takes the fact of that mark — its appearance, disappearance, and return — as a guiding motif of memory. In a beguiling narrative set on three continents, this is a story that is personal, painful, comic, and ultimately uplifting: a book not so much of the coming of age but the coming of perspective.
For more information, contact: Cathy Schlund-Vials at cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu