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Students celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month
Vanderbilt celebrated Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month through student organization-hosted events honoring the tradition of recognizing and celebrating APIDAs’ history, culture and contributions. While APIDA Heritage Month is nationally recognized during May, Vanderbilt observes this celebration in October. Throughout the month, the Asian American Student Association hosted three main events under this year’s theme of flowers.
Vanderbilt denies relationship with CoreCivic amidst federal investigation
Vanderbilt University continues to deny investments in CoreCivic, a company that owns and manages prison and detention centers, amidst federal investigation into the company and Trousdale Turner Correctional Center. The Justice Department is investigating this facility for staffing shortages, physical violence, murder and sexual abuse, according to a press release by the Office of Public Affairs.
Books by Han Kang
Han Kang (1970-) is a South Korean novelist, poet and short story writer. In 2024 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her most recent book to be translated into English is We Do Not Part, set in contemporary Korea but dealing with the Jeju massacre of 1948.
His Eyes, Her Voice
An unnamed man and woman come together, slowly and arduously, over the course of a novel. She is a poet who has turned mute; he is a language teacher going blind. Her first bout of muteness, which struck when she was a teenager, was cured suddenly in French class by a single word: ‘bibliothèque’. Now she is attending classes in Ancient Greek to see if something in the language can dislodge her mysterious impediment.
GREEK LESSONS by Han Kang Deborah Smith Emily Yae Won Translators Read by Greta Jung Earl T Kim | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine
Narrators Earl Kim and Greta Jung humanize Han Kang's moving story about two people who are suffering physical and mental anguish. After an unnamed Korean woman experiences several traumatic life blows, her language disappears. She enrolls in a Greek language class with an instructor who has just learned he's going blind. As the two stories alternate, Jung enters the mind of the wordless woman, conveying her deeply disturbed state through her lyrical poetry.
Review: 'Greek Lessons,' by Han Kang
Plato's allegory of the cave, which examines how our conception of the world relates to our perception of it, has been sparking debate ever since the "Republic" hit Athenian agorae nearly 2,400 years ago. The great Greek philosopher argued that as we are unshackled from the cave wall and acquire freedom, education or experience, our understanding becomes dependent not solely on our senses but on reason, which allows us to grasp the true nature of things.
Book World: Two intersecting lives, each grappling with a unique loss
- - - In high school, I was particularly fond of a serious and attentive Latin teacher who never seemed disturbed by my reluctance to speak during class. Once, on the first day back to school after a break, this teacher showed up with gleaming eyes and a huge smile on her face, more exuberant than I'd ever seen her. Almost transformed.
A Narrator Locked in Silence, Who Finds Solace in an Ancient Language
GREEK LESSONS, by Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Study of a new language often begins with words presented as opposites: "heat" and "cold," or "quiet" and "loud." You know you've progressed in your comprehension of that new language when other words disrupt the neatness of these initial pairings, when the word "quiet" arrives with some mental noise, echoing against other possible choices, "inaudible" or "unsaid," that might be more precise.
A Narrator Locked in Silence, Who Finds Solace in an Ancient Language
Book Review|A Narrator Locked in Silence, Who Finds Solace in an Ancient Language https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/books/review/greek-lessons-han-kang.html Fiction In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. GREEK LESSONS, by Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won.
Book review: Han Kang’s hypnotic Greek Lessons probes the limits of language
By Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won Fiction/Hamish Hamilton/Hardcover/148 pages/$32.26/Books Kinokuniya 4 out of 5 A woman, overwhelmed by language, finds herself unable to speak. Her only solace is in learning ancient Greek, a dead language which in its complexity and unfamiliarity may help her break her silence. Already a subscriber?
Book review: Han Kang’s hypnotic Greek Lessons probes the limits of language
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Greek Lessons: A Novel (Hardcover)
Description About the Author Details Reviews & Media A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian “Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight.”—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The...
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