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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Sciorra <joseph.sciorra@qc.cuny.edu> Date: Nov 5, 2009 4:05 PM Subject: Calandra Institute presents Christopher Wilson on "Lost Boys, Recovered Memories: Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers," November 16th To: AIHA List Serve <H-ITAM@h-net.msu.edu> ------------------ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College, CUNY The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies Monday, November 16, 2009, 6 p.m. Lost Boys, Recovered Memories: Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers Christopher Wilson, Boston College In 1995, New York writer Lorenzo Carcaterra stunned audiences with a memoir entitled Sleepers, which told the story of the author and three friends, all from Hell's Kitchen, who had been sentenced to a juvenile prison as boys. There, the memoir claims, they had been abused by a ruthless gang of guards. Even more sensationally, Sleepers described an elaborate conspiracy (including a local priest) to subvert the criminal trial that ensued years later when two of those boys murdered one of the guards. Christopher Wilson's presentation will discuss the uses of ethnic, literary, and political memory in this memoir-patterns suggested especially by Carcaterra's recent editorship of Alexandre Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo-in order to decipher its claims about contemporary justice, victim's rights, and neighborhood authority. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor New York, New York 10036 (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building's concierge. For further information see our Web site at www.qc.edu/calandra. <http://www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra> -- Dominic Candeloro, Skype D-Candeloro H-ItAm Editor Candeloro@CasaItaliaChicago.org http://dominic.candeloro.googlepages.com/dominiccandeloro 847-951-9109 cell Library Curator Casa Italia Library, 3800 Division St., Stone Park, IL 60165 708 345-5933 office hours- Mon. noon-5:30 pm Visit our catalog of 5000 titles and media recordings at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ItalCulturalCenter Visit the Italians in Chicago Exhibit of Casa Italia at http://picasaweb.google.com/Dominic.Candeloro/ItaliansInChicagoPhotoExhibit# Please email chairman@casaitaliachicago.org to subscribe to the weekly update of events at Casa Italia.
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