Vanessa Hua – Collect to Recollect (July 2023)

“Surely, the act of recording these stories of fragmenting communities is an effort at saving something, preserving something,” writes Peter Ho Davies. “We collect to recollect.” In this lecture, Vanessa Hua examines linked short story collections by authors from diasporic and marginalized communities, considering craft strategies that establish or strengthen links between stories, as well as the arrangement of stories for maximum resonance.