{"id":22191,"date":"2016-03-20T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22191"},"modified":"2016-03-20T04:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T09:35:43","slug":"noted-novelist-activist-marnie-mueller-to-speak-at-apsus-asanbe-diversity-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/03\/20\/noted-novelist-activist-marnie-mueller-to-speak-at-apsus-asanbe-diversity-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted novelist, activist Marnie Mueller to speak at APSU\u2019s Asanbe Diversity Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The path that Marnie Mueller would forge during her career was, in many ways, foreshadowed by the circumstances that led to the first moments of her life.<\/p>\n

Born to Caucasian American parents during World War II, Mueller nonetheless was born behind the barbed wire fences of a Northern California segregation camp designed to keep Japanese Americans contained during the war effort.<\/p>\n

\"Marnie<\/a>

Marnie Mueller to give lecture \u201cThe Color of Citizenship: The Impact of the Japanese American Internment During WWII\u2014Then and Now\u201d at APSU\u2019s Asanbe Diversity Symposium, March 24th.<\/p><\/div>\n

Unusually politically progressive for the time, Mueller\u2019s parents chose to work behind the fence to make an intolerable situation tolerable for those incarcerated by their own countrymen.<\/p>\n

That early exposure to intolerance and injustice created a strong desire for change in Mueller. In the years to come, she would develop a career as a community organizer, arts and public service administrator, media director and arts producer.<\/p>\n

Her work as a volunteer, activist and author led to her being featured as one of the \u201cvoices of the 20th century\u201d by ABC News journalist Peter Jennings in his 2001 documentary, \u201cThe Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"APSU\u2019s<\/a>At 1:00pm on March 24th, Mueller will delve deeper into her earliest days with her lecture \u201cThe Color of Citizenship: The Impact of the Japanese American Internment During WWII\u2014Then and Now,\u201d during the Austin Peay State University Asanbe Symposium. This lecture will take place in room 303 of the Morgan University Center, and a panel discussion, titled \u201cImmigrant Experience, Immigrant Voices: Locating Culture in the Twenty-First Century,\u201d will follow at 2:30pm.<\/p>\n

The symposium, sponsored and organized by the APSU Department of Languages and Literature, was established 21 years ago in memory of Dr. Joseph Asanbe, who was the first professor of African and African-American literature at APSU.<\/p>\n

The event is co-sponsored by the APSU Office of Academic Affairs, APSU Diversity Committee, African-American Studies Program, Department of History & Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Glover\u2019s Lock Service, International Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, The Honors Program, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program and the Wilbur N. Daniel African-American Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

Mueller has published three novels, each of which evolved out of her life experience. Her debut novel was \u201cGreen Fires,\u201d set in the rainforest of Ecuador and dealt with the first incursions of oil companies into the Amazonian region.<\/p>\n

[320right]Her second, \u201cThe Climate of the Country\u201d was based on her parents\u2019 time in the Tule Lake Camp, and her most recent was \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Island,\u201d which dealt with her mother\u2019s death in a small Puerto Rican community outside San Juan, PR.<\/p>\n

Over the course of these novels, she garnered many awards, including an American Book Award; a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers choice; a New York Times Book Review, New and Noteworthy in Paperback; the New York Public Library \u201cBest Books for the Teen Age;\u201d the Maria Thomas Award for Outstanding Fiction; The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards honorable mention; and a BookSense76 selection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Climate of the Country\u201d was recently selected for inclusion in the Japanese American Densho online encyclopedia about the history of the WWII incarceration experience. Essays by her that are pertinent to her internment camp experience have been included in various anthologies, including \u201cThat Mad Game: Growing up in a Warzone\u201d and \u201cLast Witnesses: Reflection on the Internment of Japanese Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Asanbe Diversity Symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the APSU Department of Languages and Literature at 931.221.7891.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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