The American Area Seminar in the Department of English invites you to a lecture by Mariajosé Rodriguez Pliego on November 6, at 5:00 PM (small reception to follow), in Decio 235. This talk is sponsored by the Institute of Latino Studies, in collaboration with the American Area Seminar.
The lecture, "Nation and Orality: Luz Jiménez and Jovita Gonzalez's Retrospective Revolutions," considers the stories of Nahua narrator Luz Jiménez and Tejana folklorist Jovita González as they documented apocalyptic moments for their communities: the Mexican Revolution and the aftermath of the Mexican-American war. In a comparative reading of Latinx and Indigenous oral traditions, this talk considers how communal memory unsettles the textual archives of nation-states.
Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is a comparative scholar of Latinx and Indigenous literatures. Her current book project, Foundational Futures: Nationhood, Migration, and Environment in the Literatures of Abiayala, explores the language of nationalism in the United States and Mexico from the nineteenth century to the present.