February 10, 2003
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Noted Afro-Brazilian writer Esmeralda Ribeiro will join in a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Vanderbilt’s Furman Hall on the role of black women in Afro-Brazilian literature and sexism within the black movement in Brazil. The discussion is free and open to the public.
Also participating in the discussion will be Rhonda Collier, assistant professor of English at Lipscomb University, and Emanuelle Oliveira, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University.
Ribeiro, who has published poetry, prose and essays, is also the editor of Caemas Negros, a black literary journal founded in 1978. Collier investigates the poetry of black women in Brazil, Cuba and the United States and Oliveira studies contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature and race relations in Brazil.
The event is cosponsored by Vanderbilt, Lipscomb and Fisk universities.
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