University Open Air: Strangeness
Strangeness is the “state of being strange”. Let’s look at how some artists represent strangeness. Nabokov’s The Gift and Marie Ndiaye’s That Time of Year, feature outsiders: respectively, a Russian exiled in Berlin and a Parisian stranded in a small town. Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s paintings illuminate the cultural collage resulting from living in different places. Finally, Emmanuel Carrère’s The Mustache strangeness is intimate. With these authors, we can creatively reflect on our own feelings of strangeness.
Nadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator with a PhD in French Language and Literature from Aix Marseille Université. She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship and a Boston Writers of Color’s grant. Her writing has appeared in The Citron Review, Litro Magazine online, African Voices, TAOS journal of poetry, Apex magazine, and elsewhere. With Dylan Castagnette, Nadia co-directed a short film with the support of the University Open Air, a program of Brooklyn Public Library.
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Strangeness is the “state of being strange”. Let’s look at how some artists represent strangeness. Nabokov’s The Gift and Marie Ndiaye’s That Time of Year, feature outsiders: respectively, a Russian exiled in Berlin and a Parisian stranded in a small town. Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s paintings illuminate the cultural collage resulting from living in different places. Finally, Emmanuel Carrère’s The Mustache strangeness is intimate. With these authors, we can creatively reflect on our own feelings of strangeness.
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