成人大片

Using Sadiya Hartman's 鈥渃ritical fabulation鈥� method, I am attempting to fill in the gaps and silences in my family history. The work begins with an attempt to explore the history of my surname 鈥淰erissimo鈥� while re-encountering stories that have gone untold and may be better left untold. The question I am asking is: 鈥淗ow do you tell a forbidden story?

Because this is an ongoing multi-genre book project, the focus of my talk will be on making sense of the silences through interviews with living members鈥攎ost notably my father and his brother鈥攁s well as pulling ideas from existing images and visiting sites that have special meaning to the family.

成人大片 the Speaker

Jumoke Verissimo is a poet, fiction and nonfiction writer. She has two poetry books; I am Memory and The Birth of Illusion. She has also published a novel, A Small Silence, which was a finalist for the Ondaatje Prize in the United Kingdom. Aduke, Grandma, and the Moon's Hidden Secret is her most recent work, which she also translated into Yoruba. Some of her works are available in translation into other languages. She recently completed a novel.