Other Men’s Shoes – is To Kill A Mockingbird a racist book?

Mary Youlden
Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 4:11pm

Talk by Tanya Landman  – author in residence

Can this much-loved book be viewed as profoundly racist?  Tanya Landman discusses the novel in the context of Harper Lee’s recently published earlier work Go Set a Watchman. “To Kill a Mockingbird”, she says, “gives an insight into the subject [of racism] but the way in which it is still read demonstrates that we have a very long way to go before we can declare ourselves to be truly colour blind.”

This event is part of exetreme imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories. For more festival events and information, go to www.exetreme.org

Free

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Venue

St Lukes Campus, Exeter University

Event Date

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 5:00pm

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