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INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Writing with your feet: Women who walk as an exercise in memory and writing by Dr Andrea Jeftanovic
Dr Andrea Jeftanovic, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Date/Time: Thursday 12 October 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
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Chaired by Dr Philippa Page, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Co-Director, Humanities Research Institute
The recent feminist marches across Latin America, protesting against femicide and/or demanding the rights to sexual diversity and reproductive autonomy, encourage us to think about the relationship between women, memory and public space. The speaker will reflect on emblematic walks that have been led by women, from the era of military dictatorship to the present day. She will share her own experience as an author who leaves the house to ‘write with her feet’ about issues that are as personal as they are collective.
Biography
Andrea Jeftanovic is a Chilean writer of Jewish and Serbian ancestry. She is author of the novels Escenario de Guerra (Theater of War, published in the UK by Charco Press), Geografía de la lengua (Love in a Foreign Language), and of two volumes of short stories: No aceptes caramelos de extraños (Don’t Take Candy from Strangers) and Destinos errantes (Roving Destinations). In addition, she has published the essay volumes Write from the Trapeze, Children Speak, and Dialogues with Isidora Aguirre.
Her work has received several prizes, including the Chilean Art Critics Circle Award, the National Book and Reading Council Award, and the PEN Translates Awards. Her books have been translated into several languages. Jeftanovic is not afraid of controversy, seeing art as ‘a space for moral experimentation’. The inheritance of loss, the violence of desire and the inner urge to find a sense of self count among her main subjects.
Jeftanovic studied sociology and afterwards went on to complete a PhD in Latin American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She combines her literary work with academics at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. She is also a theater critic.
