Monday September 14, 2009
Chris Abani
"Stories of Struggle, Stories of Hope: Politics, Art and Human Rights"
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Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7 p.m., Kenan Auditorium
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First imprisoned at age 18 by a Nigerian regime that considered his first novel a threat to national security, Chris Abani went on to write award winning novels such as Song for Night, about a West African child soldier who has lost his voice , and Graceland. Abani, a professor of creative writing at University of California Riverside, explores the struggles of socially engaged fiction in addressing what it means to be human, who decides what makes up our humanity and if there is a standard human against whom everyone is judged.
Lecture Tickets: $9 public, Free for UNCW students and employees. Call Kenan Box Office 910.962.3500 or visit www.uncw.edu/presents
Presented by the UNCW Leadership Lecture Series and co-sponsored by University College as part of the Synergy Common Reading Keynote, UNCW Student Media, and Department of Creative Writing.
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