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SouthTalks: Race in 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies'

Lectures: Deesha Philyaw and Ethel Scurlock present Race in 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies'

Wed
19
Oct
12:00 PM Oct. 19, 2022
Virtual
Open to the public
Registration Required

Readers and critics alike embraced Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a collection of nine short stories focused on Black women, sex, and the Black church. Yet the collection is rarely discussed as being “about race,” with emphasis placed instead on issues related to gender, sexuality, and religion. In this conversation between Ethel Scurlock and Philyaw, they will explore the significance of race in the book’s stories.

Philyaw’s short story collection won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, the 2020 Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. Philyaw is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022–23 John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

To register for this virtual event, go to https://olemiss.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscOuhpzgsGNe6ENuptA95p5KcDf9SqFfK

SouthTalks is a series of events – including lectures, performances, film screenings and panel discussions – that explores the interdisciplinary nature of Southern Studies. This series is free and open to the public.

For assistance related to a disability, contact Afton Thomas: amthoma4@olemiss.edu |

Event posted by: cssc@olemiss.edu