A discussion of Petina Gappah's 'The Book of Memory'

Part of the Fiction and Human Rights Network seminar series, Trinity 2018

2 May 12:30 to 13:45
Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TF Gilly Leventis Meeting Room
the book of memory

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. This 2015 novel explores the experiences and consciousness of a woman on death row in Chikurubi prison, Harare. 

Speakers: Jonathan Herring (Law, University of Oxford ); Nicholas Queffurus (African studies, University of Oxford)

All welcome; no registration required. A  sandwich lunch will be served.

 

Fiction and Human Rightsy

Contact name: Tessa Roynon

Contact email: tessa.roynon@rai.ox.ac.uk

Audience: Open to all