The John Button Oration: The Great American Lie
Melbourne Writers Festival
Event Date:
6 May 2023 04:30 PM
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Melbourne Writers Festival
A world-renowned expert in American literature and culture, Sarah Churchwell (The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells) delivers this year’s John Button Oration. Examining one of the most popular stories of all time, she shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America’s racial and gender politics, the resurgence of […]
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