Profesor Charles Crow, Fulbright gost profesor na Odsjeku za anglistiku Filozofskoga fakulteta u Zagrebu, održat će predavanje pod naslovom “Silence and Evasion in the American Racial Gothic” u petak, 15. lipnja, s početkom u 12:30 h, u sobi A-309. Više o sadržaju predavanja i o predavaču u nastavku.
“Silence and Evasion in the American Racial Gothic” investigates the silence and evasion that is at the core of American racial discourse. In particular, it investigates this pattern in fiction about racial mixing, that most charged of American topics, and the pattern of “suppressed genealogy” in several American Gothic texts. Silence and evasion, it will be argued, were survival strategies of enslaved Africans, taught through oral tradition, and became Gothic tropes in fiction by both black and white authors writing about the intertwined secrets of American families.
Charles L. Crow, Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, now lives in California. He was educated at Stanford University (BA) and the University of California at Berkeley (MA and Ph.D.). He is the author of American Gothic (2009) in the University of Wales Press History of the Gothic series, and of monographs, articles and encyclopedia entries on such authors as W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Hisaye Yamamoto, Janet Lewis, and Maxine Hong Kingston. He is the editor or co-editor of four books, including A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). A second an much revised edition of his textbook American Gothic: An Anthology from Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft , first published by Blackwell in 1999), will appear later this year. A Companion to American Gothic (Wiley Blackwell) will appear in 2013.
Professor Crow was previously a Fulbright lecturer in the Czech Republic in 1998-99.
