American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Marie Arana
Thursday, 20 Sep 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Marie Arana, editor of Washington Post Book World, was born in Peru of a Peruvian father and an American mother. She is the author of American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, which was a finalist for the PEN-Memoir Award and the National Book Award. She is also the author of a collection of columns, The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work, and a new novel Cellophane. Arana will speak about her experience as a hybrid American - an "American Chica" - and how she came to terms with this split cultural identity. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: click here.
Intelligent Talk Television showcases recent lectures given by guest speakers at colleges, universities, and libraries across Iowa. The collaborative effort between IPTV and participating institutions provides top-notch programs featuring experts on topics ranging from politics to science to economics for broadcast on IPTV’s digital channels and streaming on the ITTV website.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Center for American Intercultural Studies
- College of Human Sciences Multicultural Programs
- LAS Miller Funds
- Latin American Studies Program
- Latino/a Studies Program
- Women's Studies Program
- World Languages and Cultures
- YWCA
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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