ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)Posted in Africa, Course Offerings, History, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2010-07-06 23:05Z by Steven |
ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)
Stanford University
Department of English
Winter Quarter, 2010-2011
Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics
Stanford Univeristy
As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems, stories about interracial contacts and mixed race constitute “an orphan literature belonging to no clear ethnic or national tradition.” Yet the theme of mixed race is at the center of many national self-definitions, even in our U.S. post-Civil Rights and South Africa’s post-Apartheid era. This course examines aesthetic engagements with mixed race politics in these trans- and post-national dialogues, beginning in the 1700s and focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries.