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Original air date: Sunday, November 27, 2022
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About the Episode: :Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author of A Woman of Endurance (Amistad, 2022). Greene and Llanos-Figueroa discuss her motivation for writing this historical novel set in the nineteenth century and steeped in the culture of Africa and Puerto Rico. Llanos-Figueroa explores themes reflective of the human experience and centered on the life of the enslaved woman Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. This novel is a testament to how one survives loss, grief, and pain.
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About the Guest:: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is the author of Daughters of the Stone, which was listed as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories appear in several anthologies, including Bronx Memoir Project, Latina Authors and Their Muses, Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, Breaking Ground: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Writers in New York 1980 to 2012, and Growing Up Girl.
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Dr. Brenda M. Greene is the host of the weekly "Writers On Writing" radio program. She is also a professor of English, as well as the founder and executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. The radio program offers a forum for emerging and established writers to discuss their craft (Black literature specifically) and literary topics in general.
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