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DESCRIPTION:Join SLE and ILAC for a salon with Prof. Yuri Herrera. Born in 
 Actopan\, Mexico\, in 1970\, Yuri Herrera studied Politics in Mexico\, Crea
 tive Writing in El Paso and got his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His firs
 t novel to appear in English\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, was p
 ublished to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Yea
 r lists\, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great La
 tino Books\, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is cur
 rently teaching at Tulane University\, in New Orleans. \n\nAbout Season of 
 the Swamp: New Orleans\, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks
  at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later\, he will become 
 the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas\, but now h
 e is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and all
 uring city of New Orleans.\n\nAccompanied by a small group of fellow exiles
  who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship\
 , Juárez immerses himself in the city\, which absorbs him like a sponge. He
  and his compatriots work odd jobs\, suffer through the heat of a southern 
 summer\, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation\,
  succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever\, and fall in love with the 
 music and food all around them. But unavoidable\, too\, is the grotesque tr
 affic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future.\n\nTh
 ough the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juárez spen
 t in New Orleans\, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juárez’s time there prepared h
 im for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of
  popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera’s fiction\, Season of
  the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history\, a love letter to 
 the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture\, and a cautionary stateme
 nt that informs our understanding of the world we live in.\n\nThis salon is
  co-sponsored by Structured Liberal Education (SLE) and Iberian and Latin A
 merican Cultures (ILAC). Funding is provided by VPUE’s Academic-Residential
  Co-Curriculum (ARC) program\, which supports co-curricular and community-b
 uilding opportunities that help undergraduates build lasting professional c
 onnections with academic mentors invested in their success.
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SUMMARY:SLE & ILAC Salon: Yuri Herrera: Speculative History (Season of the 
 Swamp)
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