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Events Detail
Reading with Thomas C. Spear: Les mascarades du Wisconsin
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Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Library- LI, Library - Treehouse Conference Room 317
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
Admission: RSVP by November 18th
Tickets: Click here
In a small Midwestern town that embodies the wholesome prosperity of the baby boom years, a foul-mouthed, wisecracking father rules over his brood. He is a gregarious eccentric who buried existential secrets when leaving behind his urban East Coast roots.
In this novel, one of his sons addresses his father directly and posthumously to uncover their shared heritage and expose the patriarchal myth. It is a story of social imperatives that constrain and define masculinity in the American Heartland and the son's resistance to a predetermined destiny.
Thomas C. Spear is Professor Emeritus of French in the Languages and Literatures Department at Lehman College and at CUNY Graduate Center
This Reading will be conducted in English.