Please note: The Bexley Public Library will close today, April 2nd, at 3:30pm due to the impending inclement weather.
Exploring the ways in which nineteenth-century U.S. and Cuban writers, including Louisa May Alcott, represented Cuba in Gothic ways, falsely portraying the Caribbean island as infectious and corrupt.
Dr. Ivonne Garcia will explore the ways nineteenth-century U.S. and Cuban writers, including Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame) represented Cuba in gothic ways, portraying the Caribbean island as possibly infectious and corruptive. Dr. García will read from her newly-published book, Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary. Her latest work explores the way the Caribbean island of Cuba was represented in gothic or fearsome ways by U.S. and Cuban writers during the nineteenth century, and how those representations shifted shortly before the Spanish-American War in 1898 when the United States took Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain.
Dr. Ivonne M. García is the inaugural Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at The College of Wooster. Before that, she was the William P. Rice Associate Professor of English and Literature at Kenyon College, where she taught and served in administration for 13 years. A Bexley resident, Dr. García has an undergraduate and a master's degree from Harvard University, and a master's and doctorate in English from The Ohio State University.
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
The library is located at 2411 East Main Street, at the intersection of East Main Street and Cassady Avenue. Parking is available in our parking lot on Euclaire Avenue and in front of the library on Main Street. Main Street is a No Parking Tow Zone from 4:00-6:00 p.m. weekdays.
