About this Event
**Registration is required by the end of the day on Mon, Jan 23. We will input visitor access for non-Emerson guests the morning of the event.**
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Join us for a Scholar Series event, "Doom Patterns: Violence and Pleasure in Latinx Speculations," with Maia Gil’Adí on Wednesday, January 25, at 5 pm EST at 80 Boylston St (Little Building Building), Room 224, Boston, MA 02116.
Free and open to the public. Alumni and friends of Emerson, please join us.
Note on Emerson's COVID policy: Guests must be fully vaccinated. A negative test is not required. Masks are optional at this event.
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Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines representations of violence—from the sweeping scale of global imperialism to the close intimacy of domestic violence—in Latinx literature. Putting portrayals of destruction and pain in prose fiction into conversation with aesthetic pleasure, she argues that these two figurations collaborate in the cultural production of Latinx literature and latinidad. To bring these two ostensibly incongruous fields of narrative production into rapprochement, she advances a Latinx speculative reading practice that illuminates elements in the texts that seemingly lay hidden, reveals the excessive in what passes as mundane, and underscores the ongoing nature of imperial, racial, and ethno-national violence. Turning to works by Junot Díaz, Carmen Maria Machado, and Hernan Díaz, Gil’Adí shows how formal elements in the text consistently return readers to moments of destruction and ultimately reveal the speculative nature of latinidad itself.
Maia Gil’Adí is Assistant Professor of English and Latinx literature at Boston University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Latino Studies, Studies in American Fiction, ASAP/Journal, and edited volumes with Cambridge University Press and Palgrave McMillan. She is also the co-editor of a special issue of ASAP/Journal, “New Worlds of Speculation,” which focuses on the speculative arts by people of color. She has been an Institute for Citizens and Scholars Fellow (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), a member of the founding executive committee for the Latinx Forum of the Modern Language Association, co-chair of the Latinx Section of the Latin American Studies Association, and serves on the editorial board for Palgrave SFF: A New Canon series. She is also the creator and curator of The Zombie Archive.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Emerson College Little Building, 80 Boylston Street, Boston, United States
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