Reading Janet Frame (for) Today: A Symposium for the Janet Frame Centenary

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A writer’s work is inevitably—at least to some degree—anchored in its own time and space. And yet some writing also transcends those temporal and geographical connections in important ways: opening up questions that refuse easy answers, these works stay hauntingly relevant long after they were first published, and well beyond their particular geographical locale.

Janet Frame, as a writer of immense creative capability, paired with formidable intellectual curiosity and social awareness, has endowed us with such “transcendent” writing; indeed, she has given us a body of work whose probing questions we have barely begun to unpack with the full attention, and respect, that they deserve.

To celebrate Frame’s extraordinary legacy and mark the centenary of Frame’s birth in Dunedin, the University of Otago English and Linguistics Programme invites you to participate in a free one-day symposium that teases out some of the enduring questions raised by her work.

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