Hood will welcome Afro-Brazilian author

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Hood will welcome Afro-Brazilian author

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An acclaimed author will discuss her fiction and other Afro-Brazilian literature at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hood College’s Whitaker Campus Center, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick.

Conceição Evaristo, professor of Brazilian literature at the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will give a lecture entitled ‘‘Scattered Words: Afro-Brazilian Women’s Voices” as part of Hood’s 2007-2008 Humanities Colloquium Series that is focusing on human rights.

Evaristo’s writing centers on the social factors influencing families, including the power that women exert in their role as mothers and the consequences of what she believes is society’s failure to provide adequately for its youth. Her works have been published in anthologies, including ‘‘Moving Beyond Boundaries,” ‘‘International Dimension of Black Women Writing,” and ‘‘Finally Us: Contemporary Black Brazilian Women Writers” among others.

Evaristo is also the author of two novels, ‘‘Memory Alleys” and ‘‘Ponciá Vicencio,” a story of family, dreams and hope that illuminates urban and rural Afro-Brazilian conditions.

Funded by a challenge grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the primary goal of the colloquium is to examine the challenges that have faced thinking men and women throughout history and to explore the ways current and future scholars can learn from the successes and failures of the past.

For more information, call 301-696-3890. Visit www.hood.edu.