Please join us on Sunday November 19th at 1pm as we welcome Jane Gangi to our Sunday Speaker Series at the JCC in Sherman!
Bearing Witness: The Literature and Art of Genocide, Never Forget
Encounters with the literature and art of genocide foster the act of remembering and sitting with human suffering. At this event, selected visual arts, sculpture, photographs, music, poetry, and excerpts from films and books will be shared. Participants can have the opportunity to bear witness to genocide by creating art themselves.
Jane M. Gangi, PhD, is the author of chapters and articles on genocide, as well as the book, Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Cambodia to Darfur (Routledge, 2014). She has taught the course, “Genocide in Literature and Art” at three colleges in the Northeast and has presented frequently on the topic at national and international conferences. She also received a grant in 2011 to study with scholars at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia.
Reviews of her book:
"Well written and well documented, this groundbreaking book also includes a comprehensive bibliography, reproductions of book covers of some of the titles that are profiled, and a list of meaningful works for genocide scholars and human rights activists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers."--C. McCutcheon, University of South Carolina Upstate, CHOICE
"Gangi turns to genocides that have taken place since 1945 in Cambodia, Guatemala, Kurdish Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda and Darfur. Her study is a brave one…An impressively-researched and powerful introduction to a comprehensive range of books – from historical novels to biographies of George Clooney and Angelina Jolie – and the ways in which they provide, or fail to provide, a responsible and accurate portrayal of genocide…Gangi’s book is a moving testament to those who – far from sitting down and being quiet – stand up to condemn inequalities and shout loudly that such atrocities must never happen again." --Alice Curry, Founder and co-director of Lantana Publishing, International Research Society for Children's Literature Reviews
"Written over seven years in tandem with teaching courses about genocide in post-secondary institutions, Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature functions as a useful teaching resource that considers fiction and non-fiction texts that represent genocide for young people. [It] provides educators with a comprehensive survey of books about genocide, so teachers, publishers, authors, and librarians may do the work for which Gangi advocates so passionately." -- Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong, Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures