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Carmen Boullosa at Harvard Book Store

September 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

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Date:
September 12, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm
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Website:
https://www.harvard.com/event/carmen_boullosa/

Venue

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Phone:
617-661-1515
Website:
https://www.harvard.com/

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Harvard Book Store
Phone:
(617) 661-1515
Website:
http://harvard.com/
About

Harvard Book Store welcomes CARMEN BOULLOSA—Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of CUNY—for a discussion of her new book The Book of Eve. She will be joined in conversation by GIULIANA BRUNO, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, .

 

About The Book of Eve:

What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and 91 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam’s rib, nor is it correct that she was expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn’t true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel…

In brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa offers a twist on the Book of Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the world—from the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals, to the cultivation of land and pleasure—all through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories we’ve been told since childhood, which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, and even accessory to man, opening the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes this entrenched, dangerous perspective in her foundational and brazen feminist novel.