Reflecting on Mona Susan Power’s Novel 'A Council of Dolls'

Name: Reflecting on Mona Susan Power’s Novel 'A Council of Dolls'
Start: 2024-10-02T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-02T19:00:00-05:00
Location: L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library | Eau Claire, WI

Register here (free): https://lephillips.librarycalendar.com/event/power
Learn more about the history and context of writer Mona Susan Power’s work and the social justice issues she highlights in her novel, A Council of Dolls. This includes the American Indian boarding school system, intergenerational trauma, and settler colonialism. Debra Barker, Professor Emeritus of English and American Indian Studies at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, will provide some reading strategies for approaching Power’s novel from an Indigenous perspective, focusing on the management of time, important historical events noted by various narrators, and the magic of Power’s Dakota storytelling.