{"id":8382,"date":"2016-10-20T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:20:44","slug":"event-highlights-european-voices-a-reading-conversation-with-maja-haderlap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2016\/10\/20\/event-highlights-european-voices-a-reading-conversation-with-maja-haderlap\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Highlights: European Voices: A Reading &#038; Conversation with Maja Haderlap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 13, the Pardee School of Global Studies at 121 Bay State Road opened its doors to Austrian-Slovenian author Maja Haderlap, accompanied by her translator, Tess Lewis, to talk about her most recent work, Angel of Oblivion. Born in Austria to a rural, Slovenian-speaking family, Haderlap and her family were in the minority; the majority of Southern Austria spoke German. Angel of Oblivion narrates that disparity, centering around a young protagonist who has to traverse the rigid boundaries between both the equally burdened Slovenian and German languages, and their contrasting communities. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11054951@N04\/albums\/72157675661290715\" title=\"10.13.16\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5686\/30249446210_822ed20993_z.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"471\" alt=\"10.13.16\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A coming of age story, Angel of Oblivion is not entirely a memoir, but it also is not entirely a novel\u2014critics of Haderlap\u2019s have dismissed its multifaceted nature, but Haderlap sees the label \u201cmessy hybrid\u201d in a positive light. It is no wonder that this work intermixes elements of both poetry and prose, memoir and fiction, and history and culture\u2013this work exists in a particularly difficult moment of history, one wrought with contradictions, excellently encapsulated as Haderlap interweaves her own childhood experiences. \u201cYou work with shadows as well as the light,\u201d she notes.<\/p>\n<p>The book, written in German, aims to connect the same two communities Haderlap was torn between while growing up. \u201cIt is the grounds for connection between the Slovenian speaking minority and their German neighbors,\u201d Tess Lewis translates from Haderlap\u2019s German. \u201cIn Europe, you wall yourself up\u2014more than in the US. If you\u2019re this, you are this and you can\u2019t be that. I try to break this pattern.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Engaging with the complex themes of the vagaries of memory, the confusion of contradictory emotions, and the struggle of formulating an identity within a community, Angel of Oblivion\u2019s heartbreaking narrative unearths values and issues just as poignant today as they were some fifty years ago. <\/p>\n<p>-Toria Rainey \u201818<\/p>\n<p>Watch this event on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"710\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbY0x1vYkE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 13, the Pardee School of Global Studies at 121 Bay State Road opened its doors to Austrian-Slovenian author Maja Haderlap, accompanied by her translator, Tess Lewis, to talk about her most recent work, Angel of Oblivion. Born in Austria to a rural, Slovenian-speaking family, Haderlap and her family were in the minority; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[320,213,330,331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8571,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}