4/22 Class - Writing About Resistance with Eraldo Souza dos Santos - $24
Date: 4/22
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 PST
Cost: $30/$24 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
What is resistance? Can writing be a form thereof? Or is it difficult, perhaps impossible, to truly resist political and historical forces with and in our literary praxis? By combining writing exercises and the analysis of brief extracts from recent literary works, we’ll explore in this workshop the strength and powerlessness of literature as a form of resistance. We’ll be reading and discussing writings from authors such as Angela Davis, Julián Fuks, Ilya Kaminsky, Han Kang, and the Combahee River Collective and explore genres such as the autobiographical essay, the declaration, the manifesto, and the revolutionary poem. Over the course of the workshop, special attention will be paid to the uses of the first person and the roles of the narrator in accounts of resistance. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris, São Paulo, and Lausanne. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. He offered this workshop at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.
Date: 4/22
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 PST
Cost: $30/$24 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
What is resistance? Can writing be a form thereof? Or is it difficult, perhaps impossible, to truly resist political and historical forces with and in our literary praxis? By combining writing exercises and the analysis of brief extracts from recent literary works, we’ll explore in this workshop the strength and powerlessness of literature as a form of resistance. We’ll be reading and discussing writings from authors such as Angela Davis, Julián Fuks, Ilya Kaminsky, Han Kang, and the Combahee River Collective and explore genres such as the autobiographical essay, the declaration, the manifesto, and the revolutionary poem. Over the course of the workshop, special attention will be paid to the uses of the first person and the roles of the narrator in accounts of resistance. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris, São Paulo, and Lausanne. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. He offered this workshop at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.
Date: 4/22
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 PST
Cost: $30/$24 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
What is resistance? Can writing be a form thereof? Or is it difficult, perhaps impossible, to truly resist political and historical forces with and in our literary praxis? By combining writing exercises and the analysis of brief extracts from recent literary works, we’ll explore in this workshop the strength and powerlessness of literature as a form of resistance. We’ll be reading and discussing writings from authors such as Angela Davis, Julián Fuks, Ilya Kaminsky, Han Kang, and the Combahee River Collective and explore genres such as the autobiographical essay, the declaration, the manifesto, and the revolutionary poem. Over the course of the workshop, special attention will be paid to the uses of the first person and the roles of the narrator in accounts of resistance. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer currently based between Paris, São Paulo, and Lausanne. His first novel, to be published in 2024, is an autobiography of his illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, his mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. By weaving in extensive archival research and interviews, the novel narrates their journey to Minas Gerais—where she was born—and Bahia—the Blackest state in Brazil, where she was enslaved on a farm for three years—to investigate why the family that enslaved her has never been brought to justice. It also narrates her grandmother’s journey to search for her missing daughter. He offered this workshop at the prestigious UEA Creative Writing Course.