[Englecturers] African-American Studies/Visual Studies candidate

[Susan Brown]

The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
invites you to attend
a lecture related to the search for an
Assistant Professor
in African-American/African Media Studies

Elizabeth Binggeli

Department of English
University of Southern California

Thursday, February 23, 2006
3:00pm - 4:30pm
The lecture/discussion will be held in
HMNSS 2212 (English Conference Room)

"Seraph on the Suwanee" and "The Yearling"

This talk argues that the confounding sexual and racial politics of Zora
Neale Hurstons so-called "white novel," Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), are
elucidated by an understanding of the author's complex relationship to
Hollywood 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 The Yearling
(1938). 

Bingelli's primary research and teaching fields are African-American
literature and film studies.
She received her Ph.D. from University of Southern California. 

 

 

Susan Brown

Department of English

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