White NegroesPosted in Course Offerings, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2013-01-17 16:37Z by Steven |
Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies
Spring 2013
Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These are constructs that, while socially and historically produced, are no less “real” in their tangible effects, whether internal or external. Includes works by Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, John Howard Griffin, Sandra Bernhard, and Warren Beatty.