Feb
26
5:00pm
Meena Kandasamy: Exquisite Cadavers
By TPLCulture
UnlistedIn a daring play with form, Meena Kandasamy’s latest novel, Exquisite Cadavers, tells two stories at once, integrating a domestic drama of a young couple in contemporary London with that of an artist’s personal reckoning with the role of art in the face of racism, oppression and sexual violence. While one story lives on the page and the other in the marginalia, the two story arcs come together, informing each other until the back and forth, the pairing of the personal and the political, illustrates how art affects life and how life is both pulled up and pulled apart by art. Kandasamy is one of today’s most original storytellers. Her 2017 novel, When I Hit You Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, shows the effects of abuse on a young middle-class woman as she reflects back on her violent marriage to renowned Marxist academic. Creating work which challenges the common notion that women write from experience and men from imagination, Kandasamy’s latest book demonstrates again what an original talent she is.
Meena Kandasamy talks to CBC arts journalist, Aparita Bhandari, about the personal and the political as central to what she does as an artist.
About this event’s guests:
Meena Kandasamy
Aparita Bhandari
Photo of the author is courtesy of Varun Vasudevan.
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This event is part of TPL's Asian Heritage series.
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