{"id":7871,"date":"2010-07-06T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:49:07","slug":"english-261e-mixed-race-literature-in-the-u-s-and-south-africa-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7871","title":{"rendered":"ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/courseDetail.php?course_id=3037\" target=\"_blank\">ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stanford University<br \/>\nDepartment of English<br \/>\nWinter Quarter, 2010-2011<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Elam<\/a><\/strong>, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/classics\/cgi-bin\/web\/people\/faculty\/grant-parker\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Parker<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Classics<br \/>\n<em>Stanford Univeristy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~amciv\/faculty\/sollors.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Werner Sollors<\/a> recently suggested, novels, poems, stories about interracial contacts and mixed race constitute \u201can orphan literature belonging to no clear ethnic or national tradition.\u201d Yet the theme of mixed race is at the center of many national self-definitions, even in our U.S. post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Rights<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa\u2019s<\/a> post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_under_apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">Apartheid<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1564,459,1196,8,20],"tags":[3232,1386,3233],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-courses","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-grant-parker","tag-michele-elam","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}