Galanti Lounge, Carothers Library, 3rd floor Free Event

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"Black male lives have often been theorized in terms of trauma. From the social death and emasculation of enslavement to the dehumanization of the criminal justice system, black male lives have been largely understood as a sort of living-death, or a waking-nightmare. Yet, the question of what these historical and social realities mean and how they are not only interpreted, but presented and represented in aesthetic form has been of lesser concern. 

What, then, does this sort of black male vulnerability look like within aesthetic narrative form rather than sociological form? What language does it use? Is it past, present, or future? Does it have a tense at all? How does one hear it? How does read it? This lecture will argue for black male literary studies as both a genre aesthetic and a canon."

Dana Shugar Lecture in Gender and Women's Studies

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