Global Issues Through Literature: Marginalized Voices in a Global Context "Go"

The theme of "Marginalized Voices in Global Context: Centering Overlooked Narratives in Literature" is explored through Kazuki Kaneshiro's novel Go. The novel tells the story of a Korean boy and a Japanese girl who fall in love and is a modern nod to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.  Kaneshiro examines the ideas of fate and love at first sight, friendship and violence. The author’s main focus of this bildungsroman is how we define ethnicity and identity, and the effects of prejudice and discrimination.
The discussion was led by Dr. David Kenley of Dakota State University.