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Posted: Monday, February 7, 2011The Contemporary African American Novel: A Symposium
In celebration of Black History Month, the African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit presents a symposium featuring seven Buffalo State graduate students and alumni from the English Department on the contemporary African American novel, Tuesday, February 15, 4:00-6:30 p.m. in Cleveland Hall 418. This event is free and open to the public.
Chris Coughlin, “’Pushing His Foot Through a Door Slavery Built’: Native Son’s Bigger Thomas and Of Love and Dust’s Marcus Payne as Precursors of the American Civil Rights Movement”;
Jesse Mank, “The Trouble with Responsibility: Trusting Thyself in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man”
Charles Smith, “Reasoning Her Way to Power: The Color Purple, the Second Sex, and Existentialism”
Carey Miller, “Toni Morrison’s Black Epic: We Are Our Own Heroes”
Ashley North, “Reconciling the Ghost and Re-Imagining the Self in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”
Rebeka Keator, “Breaking the Back of Words: Dealing with the Unspeakable in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”
Douglass Colby, “Double Voiced Narrative in Marita Golden’s Long Distance Life: The Retelling of the Progical Son Parable"
