"FRIDAY 24th 7pm READING by BRENDA FLANAGAN

The U.S. Embassy will host a visit by American writer Brenda Flanagan, February 20-26. Brenda has traveled to the Czech Republic several times before in connection with her work on a book about Eva Svankmajerova and Czech surrealism.

During her stay in the Czech Republic, she will speak at Universities in Prague, Olomouc, Brno and Pilsen about Afro-American Women Writers, Black Fraternal, Social, and Civic Associations, and the Influence of the Pan African Movement on the Harlem Renaissance Writers.

at The Globe Bookstore

Pštrossova 6
110 00, Praha 1
near Metro Stations: Národní Třída and Karlovo Náměstí
NO COVER CHARGE "

"I always feel that my task is to represent the people of the United States, not the government. I hope to change perceptions of Americans abroad, and, likewise, have my own perceptions shaped." - Brenda Flanagan 

 Professor of English, Davidson College. During the Global Partners seminar in the Czech Republic in the summer of 2001, Flanagan interviewed Czech dissident women writers about their experiences and writing under communism. In the summer of 2002 she returned to the Czech Republic to interview other dissident writers, especially Surrealists. She met them in their favorite cafes, and toured exhibits of Surrealist art. Flanagan also participated in the twenty-first SVU World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, where she presented a paper on teaching Czech Surrealist literature in an American liberal arts college. She is continuing to study Czech so she can read the literature, and plans on teaching it in her seminars at Davidson.

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