Photo of Junot Diaz (foreground) and Yiyun Li (background) during Black Mountain Institute event: "Blurring Boarders" in April 2010.

Creator

Black Mountain Institute

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Creation Date

4-13-2010

Keywords

National characteristics

Controlled Subject

Authors; Authorship; Creative writing; Fiction; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Nationalism

Disciplines

American Literature | American Studies | Cultural History | Ethnic Studies | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Document Type

Image

File Format

jpeg

File Size

5.968 MB

Description

Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Chinese-American writer Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants, and Cuban-American poet, novelist, and translator Pablo Medina explore the blurred borders between identity, nationality, and culture in their work.

Time Period

2010-2019; 21st century

Place Name

Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada