{"id":208935,"date":"2023-04-04T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=208935"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:21:59","slug":"making-family-fiction-an-evening-with-novelist-and-film-maker-lande-yoosuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2023\/04\/04\/making-family-fiction-an-evening-with-novelist-and-film-maker-lande-yoosuf\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Family Fiction &#8211; An Evening With Novelist and Film Maker Lande Yoosuf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Writing Studies: Making Family Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A public reading and conversation with novelist, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Film Space, Lande Yoosuf and writer Melanie Curran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apr 11th, 5:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>George Segal Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>麻豆传媒在线<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making Family Fiction is a public reading and conversation with novelist, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Film Space, Lande Yoosuf. Yoosuf will read from her debut novel,<em>\u00a0Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian Muslim Family in The New York Diaspora<\/em>. The conversation will be led by 麻豆传媒在线 First-Year Writing faculty and creative writer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=curranm\">Melanie Beth Curran<\/a>. This dialogue will consider how an artist transmutes their personal identity, family traditions, and community fluency into the fictional form. What difficulties and triumphs arise from this process?<\/p>\n<p>Students, faculty, and the public are all invited to attend. This event will be held at the beautiful George Segal Gallery at 麻豆传媒在线. Our conversation seeks to compliment Caroline Garcia\u2019s Dancing on Axes and Spears, currently on view in the gallery space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/writing-studies-making-family-fiction-tickets-596128435197\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/writing-studies-making-family-fiction-tickets-596128435197<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making Family Fiction is sponsored by 麻豆传媒在线\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/writing-studies\/?\">Writing Studies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?\">English Departments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Studies: Making Family Fiction A public reading and conversation with novelist, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Film Space, Lande Yoosuf and writer Melanie Curran. Apr 11th, 5:30pm George Segal Gallery 麻豆传媒在线 Making Family Fiction is a public reading and conversation with novelist, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Film Space, Lande Yoosuf. Yoosuf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":208937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208938,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935\/revisions\/208938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}