A morning with Brenda navarro

Moving around, leaving behind the place we live and arriving at a new one often means finding ourselves without affection, without that network of ties that made the place we left behind home. In her novel Ceniza en boca (Sexto Piso, 2022) the writer and sociologist Brenda Navarro explores both the uprooting of those who migrate and uprooting as a condition in the transition to adulthood and as a collective evil in times of crisis.

Adolescence is often experienced as a process of loss of references, a change run through by uncertainty. In this journey full of strangeness and fears, the need to fit in and the search for new affections become the main driving force. Is it possible to find our place in a world in crisis where the future seems not to exist, and in cities where collective life is increasingly threatened? Is there room for tenderness?

The session has a pedagogical dossier (in Catalan) so that the students can work on the contents beforehand in the classroom and thus make the most out of the lecture.