Professor Marlene Kadar on Autofiction and Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman
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Saturday August 9 | 2 - 3 PM
Professor Marlene Kadar, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar in the Department of Humanities and in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, shares her responses to the exhibition Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman, and reads excerpts from her book Broken Fiction (2023) composed of autofictional vignettes and poems.
Kadar is a writer who lives in Toronto. She is the Founding Editor of the Life Writing Series (65 titles since 1995) at Wilfrid Laurier University Press and the Literary Editor of Canadian Woman Studies. Using archival documents from diverse KZs, Kadar published a study of a well-known convicted Aufseherin (Konzentrationslager guard) who began her career at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp before moving up in the Lager hierarchy. With deft lies, Hermine Braunstein/Braunsteiner, was able to immigrate through Nova Scotia to the USA in 1958. In the context of the camp, Kadar also studied the liquidation of the Zigeunerfamilien Lager, the Gypsy Family Camp, and the consequent genocide of Roma and Sinti in that period.
