3/9/24 Online Class - Writing with Frantz Fanon (Eraldo Souza dos Santos) - $30/$24 For Members
10 am - 1:00 pm PT (1 pm - 4 pm ET)
March 9th, 2024
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
This craft seminar is an invitation for writers of all levels interested in the work of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). We'll explore his signature motives and techniques by combining generative writing exercises and the analysis of some of his key works, such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). We'll also probe the poetics and politics of writing about lived experience, Blackness, colonialism, and violence, among other central themes of Fanon's political writing and revolutionary action. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback at the end of the meeting as well as in a one-on-one consultation session with me.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer based between Paris and São Paulo. 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.
10 am - 1:00 pm PT (1 pm - 4 pm ET)
March 9th, 2024
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
This craft seminar is an invitation for writers of all levels interested in the work of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). We'll explore his signature motives and techniques by combining generative writing exercises and the analysis of some of his key works, such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). We'll also probe the poetics and politics of writing about lived experience, Blackness, colonialism, and violence, among other central themes of Fanon's political writing and revolutionary action. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback at the end of the meeting as well as in a one-on-one consultation session with me.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer based between Paris and São Paulo. 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.
10 am - 1:00 pm PT (1 pm - 4 pm ET)
March 9th, 2024
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
This craft seminar is an invitation for writers of all levels interested in the work of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). We'll explore his signature motives and techniques by combining generative writing exercises and the analysis of some of his key works, such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). We'll also probe the poetics and politics of writing about lived experience, Blackness, colonialism, and violence, among other central themes of Fanon's political writing and revolutionary action. Participants will have the opportunity to workshop their pieces and receive feedback at the end of the meeting as well as in a one-on-one consultation session with me.
Your Instructor: A 2022 LARB Publishing Fellow, Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer based between Paris and São Paulo. 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.