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Beyond the Burden of Elegy

February 26 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Lawrence Jackson Poster

Lawrence Jackson is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He has recently published Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland Baltimore (Gray Wolf Press, 2023), a memoir about his search for housing in the city of Baltimore as a single Black male parent. He will deliver a lecture on the competing narrative strategies that have shaped his memoir writing and other developments in Black literary history.

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Date:
February 26
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Organizers

Vassar College Africana Studies Program
Vassar College Department of English

Venue

Rockefeller Hall 200

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