Black Women Out West: Unsettling the U.S. Frontier Myth
Sponsor(s): Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Why has the U.S. frontier myth offered Black artists such fertile ground for critiques of settler colonialism and hyper-masculinity? We'll think through this question with the help of fiction, photography, and comics from Africa and its diasporas.
Tsitsi Jaji joined the English and AAAS faculty at Duke in 2015, after several years at University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity, received the First Book Award from the African Literature Association, and she has published her poetry in a chapbook Carnaval, and a new collection, Beating the Graves.
Type: MULTICULTURAL/IDENTITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, UNITED STATES FOCUS, DIVERSITY/INCLUSION, LECTURE/TALK, RECEPTION, and FREE FOOD AND BEVERAGES
Contact: Julie Wynmor