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Xiaolu Guo: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman (December 12, 2018) | Mercredis de l'Institut

In this seminar, Xiaolu speaks about her journey as an immigrant from China to Britain, but also her life as a migrant in southern China during and after the Cultural Revolution in the 70s and 80s. In particular she discusses being a novelist in a second language (English) after 30 years living in China, and how she tries to create a hybrid language to write and to make films. Xiaolu attempts, as Roland Barthes would put it, to find a new language in order to escape the old language – censorship and national identity. Xiaolu, who is both a novelist and filmmaker, shows clips from her films and discuss her books. She also demonstrates the possibilities of artistic expression and freedom that fall between a collective history and a personal narrative. Edited by Flavien Eripret.