Literature 3902 - The Mask and Its Metaphors

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Bard College

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Africana Studies American modernism's push to "make it new?eant a break with the past and convention. For many writers this was facilitated by use of an "other." Critic Michael North argues thatGertrude Stein and Picasso each took on "a figurative change of race": Stein through an African American voice, and Picasso through African masks. This course examines how seeing oneself through a mask affects modernist narratives and how the mask subverts conventional definitions of race and gender. Texts include Stein's Three Lives; Sinclair Lewis' s KingsbloodRoyal; Richard Wright's Savage Holiday; Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks; and Freud's Totem and Taboo.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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