Dr. Joan Piorkowsi 

Dr. Todd Lawrence 

Dr. Todd Lawrence and Dr. Joan Piorkowski will present “The Freedom to Make You Uncomfortable: Reading Terror in Holocaust and African-American Slave Narratives” on Friday, Nov. 11.

The event will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. in the O’Shaughnessy Room, Room 108, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, St. Paul campus.

This presentation will compare Holocaust survivor narratives and African-American slave narratives and highlight the unique rhetorical position of the authors in each genre.

The presentation also will focus on the reader’s experience in these texts, particularly on the divergent ways authors either direct terror at their readers or mediate it for them, creating different experiences of both horror and trauma.