Beyond the Walls: Global Literary Investigation (Panel and Reception)

The great contradiction of our era of globalization is the way some walls and barriers come down while others are fortified. This panel of renowned authors will provide a forum for cross-border literary exchange among authors who face “walls” in their lives and work. The discussion will focus on the human elements of globalization—in particular, migration between the first world and the global South—to create a dynamic, comparative dialogue about its media and literary representation. The authors offer testimony, polemic and critique as well as rendering geographies of the past, present, and future.



Moderator: Rubén Martínez, Department of English, LMU
Laila Lalami
Loida Maritza Pérez
Heriberto Yepez
Andrew Lam

Marymount Institute