Hay Forum literary fest returns to Wild Detectives with chef’s kiss of a lineup

• • The Margins of Concentration: Social Conflicts in Latin America will present Mexican linguist rights activist and writer Yasnaya Elena, Peruvian journalist and activist Joseph Zarate (Civil WarsGranta 2021), and the Argentinian writer Dolores Reyes (Earth eaterHarperCollins 2021), exploring the complexities of language, cultural homogenization, environmental conflicts and gender violence within their respective homelands.
  • Courage to Live in Democracy: Free Speech in Cuba presents the latest book by Cuban journalist and writer Carlos Manuel Alvarez The tribe (Graywolf Press, 2022). “Mixing reportage, narrative text, and novelistic techniques, this collection chronicles a vivid portrait of Cuba during a particularly turbulent period in history, including the author’s own account of the San Isidro Movement and his experience of arrest and incommunicado during the Cuban protest of 2021. .”
  • Addressing the current climate crisis and the potential for disaster capitalism, Spanish journalist and scholar Marta Peirano will be joined by Dallas’ own best-selling memoir author Sarah Hepola. opacity(Grand Central Publishing, 2016) at The perils of the Internet: An anti-apocalyptic cautionary tale. Peirano will present her book against the future (Debate, 2022). “Panelists will discuss the relationship between technology and power and what action strategies can be used to deal with accelerating climate feudalism and mass surveillance.”

The festival is free, by RSVP, and is sponsored by the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Translation Studies, The University of Texas at Arlington Center for Mexican American Studies, Southern Methodist University Department of World Languages ​​and Literatures. , University of North Texas Women’s and Gender Studies and Latina/o and Mexican Studies, and PEN America.