Join Programs and Education Manager, Tim Price, Ph.D., for a discussion of the opening chapters of the Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North. The discussion will largely take on a Reader-Response lens and format, inviting participants to share their experience in reading this text – What characters do you find yourself most connected to, and why? Where do you see your own experience (cultural, social) reflected in the text? How does the text ‘speak’ to you, or not for that matter?
We will also discuss the literary and historical concept of ‘borderlands‘ – how this novel reflects on those emerging literary themes and historical methodologies.