LITERARY SERIES
Five from Five
Historic and Contemporary Connections to
Brazil, China, South Africa, South Korea, and Turkey
CHINA
Friday, February 7, 11 am, Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue
Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain ● GSU Host: Shuai Li, MCL
Da Chen describes growing up during the Cultural Revolution, yearning for education; secretly learning music, poetry, and English.
BRAZIL
Friday, February 21, 11 am, Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue
Edgard T. Ribeiro, I Would Have Loved Him, If I Had Not Killed Him ● GSU Host: Leslie Marsh, MCL
Drawing from folklore, family history, intrigue, the past, and the present, this mystery/detective/love story offers a fascinating view of Brazilian culture.
SOUTH KOREA
Friday, March 7, 11 am, Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue
Therese Park, The Northern Wind: Forced Journey to North Korea ● GSU Host: Kim Reimann, Political Science
The female protagonist of this spy novel is forced to work for the South Korean Central Intelligence Corps during the 1960s and the Vietnam war.
SOUTH AFRICA
Friday, March 28, 11 am, Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue
Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying ● GSU Host: Renée Schatteman, English
Set in South Africa at the end of Apartheid, this novel’s “darkly humorous descriptions of the crime, poverty, violence and ethnic unrest” are mixed with “shades of the
absurd” according to Publishers Weekly.
TURKEY
Friday, April 18, 11 am, Centennial Hall Auditorium, 100 Auburn Avenue
Mustafa Akyol, Islam without Extremes ● GSU Host: Jeannie Grussendorf, Political Science
Wall Street Journal says journalist Akyol offers “a delightfully original take on Turkey and on the prospects for liberal democracy in the broader Islamic Middle East.”
Sponsors: CENCIA (Center for Collaborative and International Arts), Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities, Georgia Humanities Council, Confucius Institute, Asian Studies Center, College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, College of Arts & Sciences International Programs, Political Science Honor Society, Honors College. Contact: [email protected] or 404-413-5103.