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Scholar to discuss African-American works of fiction
Set in the aftermath of the 1965 riots in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Walter Mosley’s mystery “Little Scarlet” is the topic at the next “Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma” session at McAlester Public Library. The book features detective Easy Rawlins.
The program is the second in the reading and discussion series “Invisibility and Identity: The Search for Self in African-American Fiction.” It begins at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Library’s Whiteacre Room.
Scholar Lewis Parkhill of Tishomingo will present the program. He is Professor Emeritus of English and past chair of the Department of English and Languages at East Central University in Ada. His Ph.D. in American Literature is from the University of Texas at Austin.
His essay, “The Humanities: A Conversation of Story and Place,” appeared in the May 2008 “Oklahoma Humanities” magazine. A member of the Tishomingo city council for nine years, he is currently serving a second term as mayor.
Books, services and other materials for this series of programs are provided by LTAIO, a project of the Oklahoma Humanities Council with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Funding for this series was provided by a grant from the Inasmuch Foundation, and local funding is provided by Friends of the Library.
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