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Discussing 'The Pickup'
Students pick apart Reading Project's post-apartheid novel
Duration: 01:28:11
Discussing 'The Pickup'
Students pick apart Reading Project's post-apartheid novel
The Class of 2011 joined Michele Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education, and three other faculty members in Barton Hall on August 19, 2007 to discuss Nadine Gordimer's "The Pickup."
The novel, about life in post-apartheid South Africa, was the work chosen for this year's New Student Reading Project. The panel gave critical interpretations of the text, followed by frank exchanges with student questioners.
Panelists:
- Dagmawi Woubshet, assistant professor of English
- Sital Kalantry, assistant clinical professor of Law
- Grant Farred, professor of English and Africana Studies
- Event Date: August 19, 2007
- Posted: August 29, 2007
- Tags: reading, students, discussion
- From: Office of the Provost, Reading Project
- Duration: 1:28:11
