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| Event Description: Alexandra Perisic, from the Modern Languages Department at the University of Miami, will discuss the literary representations of debt as related to the question of immigration. Through a reading of The Belly of the Atlantic (2003), a novel by Senegalese author Fatou Diome, Dr. Perisic analyzes the creation of indebted immigrants in the global economy, concentrating specifically on the connection between debt and precarity, a condition characterized by a lack of economic and social stability and protection. |
| Location Information: SJSU Main Campus – Student Union Room: MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center |
| Contact Information: Name: Susan Verducci Phone: 408.924.4459 Email: susan.verducci@sjsu.edu |
