When   Tuesday, October 6, 2009   Time   5:30 PM - 6:30 PM  
Where   Kresge Hall-Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Room 2-370   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Stacy Oliver   847-467-4099  
Group   Center for the Writing Arts
More Info   http://www.northwestern.edu/writing-arts/index.html

Please join us for this special reading by the remarkable fiction writer, poet and dramatist, ANGELA JACKSON, who is a major figure in contemporary African-American literature.

Northwestern University Press is the publisher of Angela Jackson's new novel, Where I Must Go, a portrayal of African-American students at a university greatly resembling Northwestern, during the 1967-68 school year. Trying to reconcile their individual aspirations and dreams, their social conscience with violent and tumultuous historical moments of struggle against racism, the students choose different paths toward the future.

In Where I Must Go, Jackson moves from the privileged yet racially exclusive atmosphere of the fictional Eden University to the black neighborhoods of a Midwestern city to ancestral Mississippi. The story includes a wide range of characters--black and white, male and female, favored with opportunity or denied it, the young in love and elders wise with hope. With and through each other, they struggle to understand the history they are living and making.

Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, raised on Chicago's South Side, and educated at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Her book Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners, winner of the 1993 Chicago Sun-Times Book of the Year Award in Poetry and the 1994 Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry, and her selected poems, And All These Roads Be Luminous, are both published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.