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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><b><font
size=5 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>The </span></font></b><b><font size=5 color=blue><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>College</span></font></b><b><font
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of </span></font></b><b><font size=5 color=blue><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Humanities</span></font></b><b><font size=5
color=blue><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold'>, Arts,
and Social Sciences<br>
</span></font></b><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>invites you to
attend<br>
a lecture related to the search for an<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
in African-American/African Media Studies<br>
<br>
</span></font><b><font size=5 color=blue><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Elizabeth Binggeli</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Department of
English<br>
</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>University</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> of </span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Southern California</span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'><br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Thursday, February
23, 2006</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>3:00pm - 4:30pm</span></font><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br>
The lecture/discussion will be held in<br>
HMNSS 2212 (English Conference Room)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><font
size=5 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:blue'>"<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Seraph on the Suwanee"
and "The Yearling"<br>
<br>
</span></b></span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>This talk
argues that the confounding sexual and racial politics of Zora Neale Hurstons
so-called "white novel,"<i><span style='font-style:italic'> Seraph on
the Suwanee</span></i> (1948), are elucidated by an understanding of the
author's complex relationship to </span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Hollywood</span></font><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'> studio production of the 1930s and 40s. An analysis
of the reception of Hurston's work at Warner Brothers Studio reveals the
novel's indebtedness to the entrenched literary and filmic trope of the tragic mulatta,
and that trope's Janus face, what I call the "comic cracker,"
popularized in the MGM adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's<i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The Yearling</span></i> (1938). <br>
<br>
Bingelli's primary research and teaching fields are African-American literature
and film studies.<br>
She received her Ph.D. from </span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>University</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>
of </span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Southern
California</span></font><font size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Susan Brown</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Department of English</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Management Services Officer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ph:(951)827-1456</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>fax:(951)827-3967</span></font></p>
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