Iberian Nights — 1: Lit­er­ature and Survival

This series is inspired by the spirit of She­herazade, Dhuoda, Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena, the pequeñas mujeres rojas and so many others for whom the practice of lit­er­ature –in many of its facets– was the matter of sur­vival. They existed in cir­cum­stances of physical and sexual vio­lence, of civil war, of racial dis­crim­i­nation, of iso­lation; they also lived in cir­cum­stances that cannot be properly expressed outside their own exper­i­ments with lit­er­ature. Our guests write from many direc­tions, for many audi­ences, for many souls. Novels, reviews, the lives of afrode­scendent people, dance, race, sexual vio­lences, asylum briefs, and so many other forms of poly­hedric writing that explore the limits of lit­er­ature –and those of sur­vival. They will be in con­ver­sation about their work, about their thought and, cer­tainly, about the joys and frus­tra­tions of the lit­erary worlds they inhabit.