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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | ENGLH113B001 |
| Course Title | Playing in the Dark: Freedom, Slavery & the Haunting of US Literature |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | English |
| Instructor | Stadler,Gustavus |
| Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:25pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2478 According to Toni Morrison, the relentless valorization of freedom in a nation built upon the enslavement of people of African descent created a literature full of ghosts and other spectral presences. This course looks at how horror, the Gothic, and the supernatural structure U. S. narrative (mostly) fictions engagement with race and history, focusing on how literature disorients our understanding of the real when that supposed real conceals histories of violence, terror, revenge, and subversion.; Enrollment Limit: 20.00 Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, A) |
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