“Juárez en Nueva Orleans: La ficción hecha de fragmentos de verdad”
Channel: Tulane University Libraries
Date: 23/01/2024

New Orleans and Latin America Colloquium Series
A colloquium series hosted by the Latin American Library at Tulane University featuring faculty whose research considers relationships between Latin America and New Orleans.

Note: Talk is in Spanish

On April 8, 2022, Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez, renowned novelist and Professor of Spanish at Tulane presented on his novel-in-progress: “Juárez en Nueva Orleans. La ficción hecha de fragmentos de verdad” [Juárez in New Orleans: Fiction Composed of Fragments of Truth]. The talk focused on Professor Herrera’s ongoing quest to uncover layers of truth about the years Mexican political figure and future President Benito Juárez President of Mexico (1858-1872) lived in exile in New Orleans. Among the many legends surrounding this Mexican national hero was that he worked in a cigar factory in or near New Orleans.

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Presenter: Hortensia Calvo, Doris Stone Librarian and Director, The Latin American Library, Tulane University

Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane University Libraries
Video edited by Alan Velasquez

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