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Writing the New Neighborhood: Narratives of the Shifting Cities

Sunday, June 7 | 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

East Bay Media Center

  • 2015
  • Fiction
  • Memoir
  • Race/Identity
Elmaz Abinader, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Karen Tei Yamashita
  • Odilia Galván Rodríguez

A lively roster of multi-genre writers discuss how to document the changing face of the Bay Area and embody our new multicultural, multilingual story. Arab American writer/performer/activist/teacher Elmaz Abinader will announce a new series of regional workshops led by VONA/Voices of Our Nations Arts, for writers of color. One of the major voices in Chicana literature, poet Lorna Dee Cervantes explores the cultural differences between natives and waves of immigrants in her native Bay Area. Karen Tei Yamashita’s polyphonic epic novel, I Hotel, documents Bay Area historical politics through ordinary and immigrant voices. Odilia Galván Rodríguez, eco-poet, writer, editor, and activist, is the author of four volumes of poetry, including Red Earth Calling.


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