ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137) |
ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137)
Harvard Summer Program in Venice, Italy: Liberal arts studies in Italy’s city of canals
2010-06-03 through 2010-07-30
Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:30 CEST (Local Time)
(4 credits: UN, GR) Limited enrollment
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies
Harvard University
This course examines a wide variety of literary texts on black-white couples, interracial families, and biracial identity, from classical antiquity to the present. Works studied include romances, novellas, plays, novels, short stories, poems, and nonfiction, as well as some films and examples from the visual arts. Topics for discussion range from interracial genealogies to racial “passing,” from representations of racial difference to alternative plot resolutions, and from religious and political to legal and scientific contexts for the changing understanding of race. Focus is on the European tradition and the Harlem Renaissance.
Prerequisites: none.
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Tags: Harlem Renaissance, Werner Sollors