'The Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being': Melville, Brazil, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
A reading and Book discussion with Dr. John Bryant, Professor Emeritus of English, Hofstra University. The reading will be from Bryant’s new biography, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life (Vol. 2, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).
The reading features an episode in the growth of his "black consciousness," this is, his evolving empathy for Black peoples and the dispossessed.
Sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of English
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: online; Advance registration required
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Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Categories:
- Cultural
- Cultural Center
- Display
- HCLAS
- Lectures
- No Hate at Hofstra
- School of Humanities, Fine and Perf Arts
- Virtual Event
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Hofstra Cultural CenterPhone: 516-463-5669
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