Writing Studies: Making Family Fiction — Public Reading and Conversation with Lande Yoosuf
Making Family Fiction is a public reading and conversation with novelist, filmmaker, and co-founder of Black Film Space, Lande Yoosuf. Yoosuf will read from her debut novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian Muslim Family in The New York Diaspora. The conversation will be led by Montclair First-Year Writing faculty and creative writer, Melanie Beth Curran. This dialogue will consider how an artist transmutes their personal identity, family traditions, and community fluency into the fictional form. What difficulties and triumphs arise from this process?
Students, faculty, and the public are all invited to attend. This event will be held at the beautiful George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University. Our conversation seeks to compliment Caroline Garcia’s Dancing on Axes and Spears, currently on view in the gallery space.
Making Family Fiction is sponsored by Montclair’s Writing Studies and English Departments.
About the exhibition
Caroline Garcia’s Dancing on Axes and Spears invites visitors to stretch their understandings of Filipino cultural traditions, community resilience, and personal identity in the artist’s first solo museum exhibition featuring an interactive martial arts gym, virtual and augmented reality artworks, and various forms of choreography.
Garcia’s works explore her Filipino identity, assimilation and cultural memory, and Indigeneity through diasporic and feminist perspectives. Employing video, performance, sculpture, and installation, Garcia addresses a central theme of “alterity” — an anthropological term meaning “otherness” to mark her position in the diaspora where distance, language barriers, and colonization fracture traditional knowledge. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, Curator, and Exhibition Coordinator.
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Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EDT
Free!
