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Feminist writer and historian Aurora Levins Morales will be giving a lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, November 2. The lecture, entitled "Speaking in Tongues: Language, Memory and Power", will take place at 8:00 pm in Dwight Lounge, located in the Bristol Campus Center on Campus Road.

Dr. Levins Morales has been reading and lecturing nationally for nearly twenty years. Her cross-genre text, Getting Home Alive (1986), co-authored with Rosario Morales, is considered a major contribution to the growing field of Latina autobiography in the United States.

She is currently on a book tour promoting two new publications: Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas, from which she read selections when she visited Hamilton in the spring of 1997, and Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity. Remedios is a feminist retelling, in the form of prose poetry, of the history of Puerto Rican women and women from related cultures in Africa, Europe and the Americas. Medicine Stories is a collection of essays from two decades of her activist work. Topics addressed in these texts include the uses of history and memory, the politics of language, teaching about racism and anti-Semitism, the nature and costs of privilege, living with integrity and creating a sustainable activist life. Copies of her books will be available for purchase at her talk.

Her lecture will explore the critical issues of the history and status of the Spanish language in the United States, the relationship of language, race and class, and the socio-political and cultural complexities of Latino/a bilingualism. She will also address questions about the struggle against privatization and corporate control in Puerto Rico, in light of her recent visit to the island during the telephone workers' strike.

Levins Morales's talk is sponsored by Hamilton's Latino/a student association La Vanguardia. Additional support has been provided by the Kirkland Endowment, Kirkland Project, Women's studies department, Office of the President, Latin American studies program, Office of the Dean of Faculty, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Romance languages department, Spanish Club, Africana studies and HEOP.

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