SWAG 3400

American Ghost: Gender and Race in Literature and Photography

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Course Description

Pre-Requisite(s): Enrolling students must have completed at least a 2000 level course in the humanities or the social sciences

This course considers the figure of the ghost in twentieth-century and contemporary American women¿s literature and visual art by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Francesca Woodman, Carol Maso, Louise Erdrich, and others. Through woman writers¿ and artists¿ figurations of ghosts, we will explore unresolved sites of mourning structured into ideologies of race, ethnicity, and gender in the U.S.


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