Events Events: Book launch of the first English-language translation of Ursula by Maria Firming dos Reis

Thursday, October 27 | 6-8pm - Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m., in the Grand Reading Room of the Claire T. Carney Library, UMass Dartmouth, for a stimulating discussion on the 19^th century Brazilian novel, Ursula by Maria Firmina dos Reis.

This novel, published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels (1859), offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters.

This is the first English translation of this seminal work in Brazilian literature.

Panel discussion by:

• Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, translator
  (Washington and Lee University)
• Cristina Mehrtens, series editor for Tagus Press
  (UMASSD, History Dept.)
• Dário Borim, series editor for Tagus Press
  (UMASSD, Portuguese Dept.)

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at $19.95 plus tax.

Please use Parking Lot 13. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served

For details, please see the flyer.