{"id":60869,"date":"2015-12-31T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/windows-on-the-world-writing-beyond-the-west-fiction-nonfiction-from-turkey-nigeria-south-africa-iraq\/"},"modified":"2015-12-31T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:50:45","slug":"windows-on-the-world-writing-beyond-the-west-fiction-nonfiction-from-turkey-nigeria-south-africa-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/windows-on-the-world-writing-beyond-the-west-fiction-nonfiction-from-turkey-nigeria-south-africa-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows on the World: Writing Beyond the West — FICTION & NONFICTION FROM TURKEY, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, & IRAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows on the World: Writing Beyond the West — FICTION & NONFICTION FROM TURKEY, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, & IRAQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A South Africa Event on 2016-01-21 17:00:00<\/i><\/p>\n

Refugees. Repression. Resistance. Behind the endless conflicts on TV and social media, ordinary people struggle with universal issues: love, work, family, community. From this turmoil comes some of the world\u2019s best writing. Led by author and teacher Carol Verburg, we\u2019ll explore four non-Western countries from the inside, guided by their writers. Each month, we\u2019ll look through the eyes of native authors at a different country where people have lived for thousands of years, in conflict and peace. We\u2019ll hear how the people who dwell in these geographies think about their identities, their homelands, their traditions of storytelling, each other, and us. This group will focus on contemporary short stories and essays by some of the world\u2019s most highly regarded writers, as well as a featuring a few TED talks and novels. Thursday, January 21: Turkey Yashar Kemal: \u201cA Dirty Story\u201d from Anatolian Tales\u00a0– Orhan Pamuk: \u201cA Guide to Being Mediterranean\u201d and \u201cAnger of the Damned\u201d from Other Colors\u00a0– Elif Shafak: pp. 5-16 of Honor Thursday, February 18: Nigeria Wole Soyinka: \u201cNigerian Childhood\u201d from Ake\u00a0– Chinua Achebe: \u201cThe Song of Ourselves\u201d – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: \u201cA Personal Experience\u201d from The Thing Around Your Neck Thursday, March 17: South Africa Es\u2019kia Mphahlele: \u201cAfrican Literature: What Tradition? – Nadine Gordimer: \u201cWhere Do Whites Fit In?\u201d – Zoe Wicomb: \u201cN2\u201d from The One That Got Away Thursday, April 14: Iraq Hassan Blasim: \u201cA Thousand and One Knives\u201d from The Corpse Exhibition\u00a0– Sinan Antoon: excerpt from I\u2019jaam\u00a0– Samira Al-Mana: \u201cThe Soul\u201d and Mahmoud Saeed: \u201cA Figure in Repose\u201d from Contemporary Iraqi Fiction Carol Verburg is the author of prize-winning plays, mysteries, and international anthologies including Making Contact\u00a0and Ourselves Among Others.<\/p>\n

at Visual Aid<\/a>
\n57 Post Street, #905
\nSan Francisco, United States<\/p>\n

Add your South Africa<\/em> event for free here<\/a> on MyZA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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