{"id":20560,"date":"2012-02-12T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2012-02-12T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T20:48:24","slug":"impostors-eust-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20560","title":{"rendered":"Impostors: EUST-235"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/academiclife\/departments\/courses\/1112S\/EUST\/EUST-235-1112S\" target=\"_blank\">Impostors: EUST-235<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amherst College<br \/>\nSpring 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/people\/facstaff\/istavans\" target=\"_blank\">Ilan Stavans<\/a><\/strong>, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/people\/facstaff\/ddizard\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah R. Dizard<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies<\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act\u2014and art\u2014of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> for whites, Jews passing for gentiles, and women passing for men, and vice versa, are a central motif. Attention is given to biological and scientific patterns such as memory loss, mental illness, and plastic surgery, and to literary strategies like irony. As a supernatural occurrence, the discussion includes mystical experiences, ghost stories, and s\u00e9ance sessions. The course also covers instances pertaining to institutional religion, from prophesy from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles to the Koran and Mormonism. In technology and communications, analysis concentrates on the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, and the Internet. Entertainment, ventriloquism, puppet shows, voice-overs, children\u2019s cartoon shows, subtitles, and dubbing in movies and TV are topics of analysis. Posers in Greek mythology, the <em>Arabian Nights<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miguel_de_Cervantes\" target=\"_blank\">Cervantes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Carroll\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Carroll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigmund_Freud\" target=\"_blank\">Sigmund Freud<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Luis_Borges\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Roth\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Roth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliversacks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Sacks<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen<\/a> are examined. Conducted in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act\u2014and art\u2014of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1196,6,6462,820,20],"tags":[5586,9603,9602,9601],"class_list":["post-20560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-new-media","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-amherst-college","tag-deborah-dizard","tag-deborah-r-dizard","tag-ilan-stavans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}