Reading: Marlon James
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
22-3-2018 8:00 PM
End Date
22-3-2018 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 22, 2018, as part of the 49th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Truth & Lies,” Marlon James reads excerpts from his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. James also responds to audience questions about what fiction reveals when it mixes official state narratives with common/vernacular narratives, Caribbean writers, and what he thinks about language and how it functions, especially in relation to dialect.
Introduced by Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Department of English.
Streaming Media
Reading: Marlon James
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 22, 2018, as part of the 49th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Truth & Lies,” Marlon James reads excerpts from his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. James also responds to audience questions about what fiction reveals when it mixes official state narratives with common/vernacular narratives, Caribbean writers, and what he thinks about language and how it functions, especially in relation to dialect.
Introduced by Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Department of English.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/2018/day2/3
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