Session 4: Jessica Lanay
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Monday, June 7, 2021, 9 am EST
Webinar Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87834665716
Webinar ID: 878 3466 5716
Duration: Memory as Anti-Narrative; Anti-Narrative as Black Feminist Praxis
In this session, interdisciplinary writer Jessica Lanay will discuss the role of memory in embodying a liberatory self via writing, collaging, and engaging in conversation/interviewing. Taking from Tavia N'yongo's Afro-Fabulations theory, Lily Cho's future perfect loss, and Denise de Ferreira's question "What is a literary critic, a black woman critic, a black feminist literary critic?" Lanay engages how embodiment is the anti-narrative and attempts to address the question of what is wrong with narrative anyway.
Suggested Readings
Tavia Nyong’o, Afro-Fabulations, The Queer Drama of Black Life.
Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Black Feminist Poethics
Lily Cho, Future Perfect Loss
Jessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor to BOMB Magazine where she interviewed artists such as El Anatsui, Howardena Pindell, and Rirkrit Tiravanija among others. Her poetry can be found in Poiesis, Poet Lore, Indiana Review, The Common, [PANK], Prairie Schooner and others. Her short fiction can be found in Tahoma Literary Review, Duende, and Black Candies. She is a 2018 recipient of a Millay Colony Residency. Also, in 2018, Jessica Lanay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Milk. Milk. Milk," that appeared in The Normal School. Her debut poetry collection am●phib●ianwon the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize from Broadside Lotus Press.