Audience
On Thursday, 2 October at 4.30 PM in the Boyden Gallery, Merideth Taylor--Professor Emerita of Theater and Dance and a founding member of the African & African Diaspora Studies and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies programs at the College--will give a creative reading from her new book Making a Way Out of No Way, published by New York University Press. Making a Way Out of No Way is a book of photographs and stories about the lives of enslaved workers on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland between 1700 and 1865. Rather than following a traditional literary form, her book offers an interwoven collage of scenes and a community of characters that reflect, says Taylor, the diversity of experience, silences, and incompleteness of the historical record.
Taylor has also published Listening In: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother County, and she is the co-editor of In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation. Taylor has also served as a screenwriter & director of the award-winning documentaries With All Deliberate Speed: One High School’s Story; Historic Sotterley: A Tidewater Legacy; & Historic Sotterley: Talking and Walking Common Ground.
A reception will follow this event. Sponsored by the English Department, the Arts Alliance, and Lecture & Fine Arts.