Blurring borders

Authors

Junot Diaz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yiyun Li, AuthorFollow
Pablo Medina, Author

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

4-6-2010

Publisher

Black Mountain Institute

Abstract

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.

Keywords

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

Language

English

Comments

UNLV Student Union Theatre

Video File size: 459 megabytes

Audio file size: 38.9 megabytes

Repository Citation

Diaz, J., Li, Y., Medina, P. (2010). Blurring borders.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/72