SPEAKING BODIES: Loida Maritza Perez

Lecture:  "From the Americas to America: Identity as Construct"

Loida Maritza Pérez is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Geographies of Home, a powerful, haunting novel about family and faith, about displacement and the desire to belong, about love and abuse. Geographies of Home follows the lives of a Dominican immigrant family who are trying to establish a home in the United States while still holding on to their cultural identity. Inspired by her fictional work and the writing of her upcoming novel, Pérez will address issues related to Latino cultural identity in the context of the Americas.

Co-sponsored with the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Africana Studies, Latin American Studies and the Women's Studies Programs.