Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History

Name: Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
Start: 2024-06-17T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-17T18:15:00-07:00

June 17 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PDT

Sponsored by The Book Club of California

Amy Gore brings mainstream narratives about the history of the book into conversation with Indigenous book history, considering among others John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), the first novel published in the state of California and the first novel published by a Native American.

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Date:: June 17
Time:: 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PDT
Event Tags:: Amy Gore, Book Club of California, book history, indigenous peoples, native Americans