Womanshenegro: Gendering Race in William Faulkner's Light in August
Lecture
Monday November 17, 2014 from 9h30 to 11h
Aula 103A, Edifici Històric, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 - 08007 Barcelona
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Barbara Ladd (Emory University) will give a lecture entitled "Womanshenegro: Gendering Race in William Faulkner's Light in August". Ladd is a specialist in US southern literarture, and studies issues to do with ethnicity, gender, trans(South)Atlantic and American studies, American modernism, and William Faulkner. She is the author of several essays and books, among them Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (2007) and Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (1996). The lecture will be in English.
Participant(s)
Barbara Ladd
Organization
Centre Dona i Literatura;
GRC Creació i Pensament de les Dones (CiPD);
Estudis Anglesos, UB
In collaboration with
Comisión Fulbright;
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, UAB
https://www.ub.edu/adhuc/en/node/3416