Ours: Writing Black Communities (EN) @festivalberlin
Ours: Writing Black Communities (EN)  @festivalberlin
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The 1830s in Ours, a town that cannot be found on any map: just north of St. Louis, the mysterious Saint gathers a utopian community to protect themselves from enslavement and violence. Phillip B. Williams’ novel is a »triumph of imagination over bleak reality, of magic over realism, of poetry over the prose of circumstances« [ZEIT]. He speaks with Sharon Dodua Otoo about black history and community in literature.

In cooperation with the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature.

With Phillip B. Williams
Hosted by Sharon Dodua Otoo

This event was held in English.

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